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noun
The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A political moderate; a moderate on a specific issue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, informal
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Marmalade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, slang, uncountable
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noun
A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
To be compressed or squeezed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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noun
the noise of soft mud being walked on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: noise
verb
put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: squirt
verb
walk through mud or mire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: squelch, splash, splosh, slosh, slop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp
History
Apparently an alteration of squash, influenced by obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Scots squische, squies (“to crush, squeeze”). Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to squeeze, squish”). See also squeeze, squelch.
Formed by analogy with crush and possibly smash, both of which have senses as types of compression as well as types of attraction. Possibly first attested in 1999 (see Citations:squish) and then later coined or recoined in 2007 by the user Raisin on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as "a milder synonym for the word 'crush'". The term was also used with a similar meaning in a 1997 episode of the TV show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, though the 2007 (re)coining was apparently independent.
Across languages
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
