squush
A squashing or squishing sound.
Interjection
- 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
Noun
- 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
Verb
- To squash or squish.