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What is the difference between squish and squash?

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Squash is a derived term of squish.



As nouns the difference between squish and squash

is that squish is the sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed while squash is a sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.

As verbs the difference between squish and squash

is that squish is to squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist) while squash is to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

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 ).
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    • , 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

    squash

    English

    (wikipedia squash)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) squachen, from (etyl) esquasser, + .

    Noun

    (wikipedia squash)
  • (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2 citation
    • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash -racket against a wall.}}
  • (British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
    • When I'm thirsty I drink squash ; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
  • A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
    • It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
  • (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
  • (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
  • (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "squash")
    Derived terms
    * squashable * squash ball * squash court * squash player * squash racket
    See also
    * racketball

    Verb

    (es)
  • To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
  • (intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
    • Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
    We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "squash")
    Derived terms
    * squash up * squashy * squish

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of askutasquash , (etyl) ("[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)"). (Cucurbita)

    Noun

  • (countable) A plant and its fruit of five species of the genus Cucurbita , or gourd kind.
  • # Cucurbita maxima , including , and some varieties of pumpkins.
  • # .
  • # Cucurbita moschata , butternut squash, .
  • # Cucurbita pepo , most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
  • #
  • The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
    • We ate squash and green beans.
    Derived terms
    * ) * (Coreidae) * opo squash (Lagenaria spp. ) * winter squash * summer squash

    Etymology 3

    shortening of musquash

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.
  • * Dampier
    • The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.
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