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Fluffy vs Squish - What's the difference?

fluffy | squish |

As a proper noun fluffy

is a popular given name for a pet, often for a cat.

As a noun squish is

the sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.

As a verb squish is

to squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).

fluffy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Covered with fluff.
    • Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke.
  • Light; soft; airy.
    • I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture.
  • (colloquial) Warm and comforting.
    • Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside.
  • (colloquial) Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
  • * 2008 , R.Safley, Reagan's Game
    • Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs over strength when you were picked last for the sports team.
  • Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
  • * 2006 , Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (page 271)
    • And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro , its title prominent if upside down in the foreground.

    Related terms

    * fluff * fluffiness

    Noun

    (fluffies)
  • Someone or something that is fluffy

    • squish

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
  • (politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate (term used by conservative activists in the 1980s).
  • (rfv-sense) (informal) An aromantic or platonic attraction (by analogy with crush ).
  • * {{cite newsgroup
    • , title = A Transgendered Revolution! , author = Jennifer Usher , date = 1999 November 21 , newsgroup = soc.support.transgendered , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.support.transgendered/QCupiXaOXVI/OfWtcoP2snoJ , accessdate = 2015-01-03 }}
    WHY do you think I find it so disturbing? Diane having a squish on me.
  • * 2013 , Anonymous, " The 'A' in LGBT", Counterpoint (Wellesley College), Volume 35, Issue 1, September 2013, page 8:
    • After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).

    Verb

    (es)
  • To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
    • The sandwich tasted fine, even though it got squished in his lunchbox.

    Derived terms

    * squishy English onomatopoeias