skoosh

plural skooshes

1. ScotlandinformalA squirt (of liquid).

   1 pint of filtered water 2 dessert spoons of sugar (or honey) 4 nobs of butter (or one big lump) 1 big skoosh of lemon juice, hand squeezed 6 large free range eggs.

   2012, Harry Morris, The Last Night on the Beat: The Best of Harry the Polis, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN

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   But Mrs Strain ducked and dodged and weaved, keeping the bucket steady between her feet and managing to give the two or three cats running about the place a skoosh of milk straight from the udder into their mouth.

   2002, Hugh Robinson, Back Across the Fields of Yesterday, →ISBN

2. ScotlandinformalSomething very easy; a piece of cake.

   After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.

   2013, Joe Pieri, The Big Men

present singular third person skooshes · participle present skooshing · participle past skooshed · past skooshed

1. ScotlandinformalTo squirt.

   She skooshed some foam from a spray can onto her hand and applied it to her hair. "What's that?" said Gerry. "Styling mousse."

   2017, Bernard MacLaverty, chapter 8, in Midwinter Break, page 160

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   Untouchable. I am untouchable. I cannot touch. But in these other states, I am the citizen of many nations. To that woman on holiday in Millport many, many years ago, I am that cheeky wee boy who skooshed her in the face with my water pistol […]

   2001, Andrew Campbell, Dead Letter House, Neil Wilson Pub Limited

   She positions herself in the middle of each room, then sprays every surface as if she's Lara Croft holding one of those paintball guns. By the time I've mopped up all the puddles of polish she's skooshed on Mum's good furniture, […]

   2006, Catherine Forde, Firestarter, Egmont Books, →ISBN

   She shut the doors, covered the food and then skooshed DDT at them. That killed them all and we were choked but fly-free for a few minutes. I have no doubt Mrs Low's was the healthier option - however grotesque it may have been.

   2008, Charlie Allan, The Truth Tells Twice: The Life of a Buchan Farm, Birlinn

2. informalTo squish, to smoosh.

   I tore my mayonnaise packet open with my teeth, squirted it on the bun, and skooshed it around to coat the alleged patty. Noah tapped his finger on my lunch tray. "You going to eat your fruit cup? You should."

   2012, Lisa Harkrader, The Adventures of Beanboy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 151

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   Eternal Returnists believe that after you die you must return as every fly you ever swatted, every ant you ever skooshed, every mosquito, every spider, every animal you ever roared over on the highway with your Harley, whether you knew it or not […]

   2004, Don Strachan, King of Diamonds, Penthe Pub, →ISBN

3. ScotlandinformalTo have an easy time.

plural skooshes

1. informalA smidge, a small amount.

   “Not even a little problem, just a skoosh of a problem, really.”

   2018, Melissa Radke, Eat Cake. Be Brave., Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN

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   […] his wife, who might have outweighed him by forty pounds, wore a cut-off sweatshirt over a red blouse, and what seemed to be men's Levis, cut with a bit more than "a skoosh more room," as the ads say.

   1995, James C. Schaap, In the Silence There are Ghosts: A Novel, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN

   Off-balance myself, I skidded to one knee and got up just a skoosh slower than Beastie did.

   2020, Sara Hanover, The New Improved Sorceress, Penguin, →ISBN

   Synonyms: skosh, scooch, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel