squush

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skwʊʃ/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /skwʉʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squish.

Derived terms

Noun

squush (plural squushes)

  1. A squashing or squishing 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

squush

  1. A squashing or squishing 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.
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