sqush

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

  1. (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
    • 1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn:
      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.
    • 1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls:
      [] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush []
    • 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, page 12:
      His feet squshed in the water as he went [] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.
    • 1965, Ezra Pound, The Cantos:
      [] a "throne", something God can sit on without having it sqush []
    • 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, page 36:
      [] At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush....sucking the juice through a straw,