sqush

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English

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skwʊʃ/
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(Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /skwʉʃ/
Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Verb

sqush (third-person singular simple present squshes, present participle squshing, simple past and past participle squshed)

(intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
- 1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn:
  Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden.
- 1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls:
  […] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush […]
- 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, page 12:
  His feet squshed in the water as he went […] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.
- 1965, Ezra Pound, The Cantos:
  […] a "throne", something God can sit on without having it sqush […]
- 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, page 36:
  […] At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush....sucking the juice through a straw,

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