squdge

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Noun

squdge (plural squdges)

1. A wet, squashy sound.
   • 1940, C. Daly King, Bermuda Burial, page 195:

     Now there were two objects, ricocheting off a rocky headland, occasionally bumping each other with a squdge inaudible above the sloshing water.

   • 1927, Olde Penn, volume 26, number 4, page 88:

     Students plodded bravely on, unmindful of the cold rain water that made a "squdge" in the soaked shoes every time a step was taken.

   • 1911, Lieut. Howard Payson [John Henry Goldfrap], The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship (The Boy Scouts; 3), New York: A. L. Burt Company, page 29:

     Rob's harpoon whistled through the air and sank, with a “squdge,” into the side of the bobbing, evasive target.

2. A wet, squashy mess.
   • 1927, John Lofland, Doomsday Cult, page 11:

     What on earth did they do with themselves in those little transitory houses on their quarter-acre plots, without a decent tree on the estate, and the very road a squdge of clay and clinker?

Verb

squdge (third-person singular simple present squdges, present participle squdging, simple past and past participle squdged)

1. To move in a wet, squashing manner; to squish.