squish
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /skwɪʃ/
squish (plural squishes)
- The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
- (politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate.
- 2009, Time (volume 173, issues 17-26, page 236)
- Some conservatives think that in the long run, the party will be better off without squishes like Specter […]
- 2009, Time (volume 173, issues 17-26, page 236)
- Italian: scricchiolio, scrocchio
- Russian: хлю́панье
squish (squishes, present participle squishing; past and past participle squished)
- (transitive, informal) To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
- The sandwich tasted fine, even though it got squished in his lunchbox.
- 2012, Adam Freeman, Windows 8 Apps Revealed Using XAML and C# (page 74)
- Rather than squishing everything into a tiny window, I have shown only part of my app.
- (intransitive, informal) To be compressed or squeezed.
- 2013, Julia Crane, Talia Jager, Broken Promise
- I kicked off my shoes and wiggled my toes on the soft moss. It felt amazing as it squished between my toes, […]
- 2013, Julia Crane, Talia Jager, Broken Promise
- (to squeeze, compress) condense, squash; see also Thesaurus:compress
- French: écraser
- German: quetschen, zermatschen, zerquetschen
- Italian: spiaccicare, spappolare
- Russian: разда́вливать
- IPA: /skwɪʃ/
squish (plural squishes)
- (LGBT, slang) A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush.
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