squush

A squashing or squishing sound.

Interjection

  1. A squashing or squishing sound.
    • 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! - 1942, Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and...
    • 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. - 1972, Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters:

Origin

Onomatopoeic variant of squash or squish.

Forms

sqush

Noun

  1. A squashing or squishing sound.
    • 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. - 1949, William Beebe, High Jungle:

Forms

squushes sqush

Verb

  1. To squash or squish.

Forms

squushes squushing squushed sqush

Derived

squushy