squush

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/skwʊʃ/Northern Ireland, Scotland/skwʉʃ/

verb

To squash or squish.

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Meanings

verbsquush (third-person singular simple present squushes, present participle squushing, simple past and past participle squushed)

present singular third person squushes · participle present squushing · participle past squushed · past squushed · alternative sqush

  1. USintransitiverareTo squash or squish.
nounsquush (plural squushes)

plural squushes · alternative sqush

  1. A squashing or squishing sound.

    A few yards downstream was a stretch of sloping rock and moss, and here all clamor ceased: only the close-placed ear could detect the muffled squush.

    1949, William Beebe, High Jungle
interjection

alternative sqush

  1. A squashing or squishing sound.

    Some men in the cellar were mixing mortar in trays with hoes. We watched them put sand and cement and lime and water together. Squush!

    1942, Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and Develop
    1 more example

    They looked down at the ants and other bugs they saw and felt enormously big and powerful. They pretended the bugs were people. "Got me a dozen!" Squush.

    1972, Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters

Origin

Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with squush

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Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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