Citations:skoosh

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English citations of skoosh

verb: unclear if 'squish' or 'squirt'

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  • 2001, Mike Savage, Something in the Water: A Superior Murder Mystery, Savage Press (→ISBN), page 153:
    Karla skooshed the vacuum canister and the coffee splashed into the cup.
  • 2016, Marsali Taylor, Ghosts of the Vikings, Accent Press Ltd (→ISBN)
    I put it to Kamilla's mouth, skooshed, felt the cold vapour trickle past my fingers, and felt her pulse again.

verb: "to glide, to move swishingly" (?)

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  • 1999, Ron Phelps, The sentence of Madison Morrison:
    Every time I put my finger on it it skooshed away, wriggling. We played with it in fascination all day and I cannot forget it[:] the glob had weight, it had authority, it had the solid shiny glamour of the metals, yet it had the feminine elusiveness of the ...

noun

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  • 2001, Stewart Conn, Distances: A Personal Evocation of People and Places (→ISBN):
    I add an extra skoosh of Tuscany Per Uomo.
  • 2004, Shari Low, Why Not?, Gallery Books (→ISBN):
    And turning into Delia Smith. Before she learned to cook. I rescued the shortbreads. Slightly burnt on the top, but after a quick skoosh of cream in a can, they were decidedly passable. Another triumph.
  • 2016, Marsali Taylor, Ghosts of the Vikings: The Shetland Sailing Mysteries, Accent Press Ltd (→ISBN):
    In her reflection, Bryony spread cream over her face from the first tub in the row, and followed it with a skoosh of coloured cream from the mini-dispenser beside it.
  • 2018, Helen Taylor, The Backstreets of Purgatory, Unbound Publishing (→ISBN):
    'A wee quick skoosh of my drink.' He laid the last bite of his roll on the bench using the sports pages as a napkin and tweaked the ring pull on the can, two times, three times. Finn heard dry pecks of aluminium against aluminium until eventually ...

noun or interjection, onomatopoeia

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  • 2016, Diana Elizabeth Jones, The Bearer's Burden, FriesenPress (→ISBN):
    The same old whomp and skoosh of the guns soaked the air, the same ping ting of bullets on helmets, the same screams as men were hit. The same cold breath of fear.