sqush

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/skwʊʃ/Northern Ireland, Scotland/skwʉʃ/

verb

To squash or squish.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person squshes · participle present squshing · participle past squshed · past squshed · alternative squush

  1. USintransitiverareTo squash or squish.

    […] a "throne", something God can sit on without having it sqush […]

    1965, Ezra Pound, The Cantos
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    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.

    1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

    […] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush […]

    1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls

    His feet squshed in the water as he went […] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.

    1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, page 12
nounsqush (plural squshes)

plural squshes · alternative squush

  1. A squashing or squishing sound.
interjection

alternative squush

  1. A squashing or squishing sound.

Origin

Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with sqush

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Cite this entry
APA

sqush. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sqush

MLA

“sqush.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sqush. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sqush,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sqush.

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