squush
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]squush (third-person singular simple present squushes, present participle squushing, simple past and past participle squushed)
- Alternative spelling of sqush
Noun
[edit]squush (plural squushes)
- A squashing or squelching sound.
- 1949, William Beebe, High Jungle:
- 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.
Interjection
[edit]squush
- A squashing or squelching sound.
- 1942, Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and Develop:
- 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!
- 1972, Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters:
- 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.