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Squish vs Squishable - What's the difference?

squish | squishable |

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).

As an adjective squishable is

able to be squished or compressed.

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

    squishable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be squished or compressed
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 15, author=Henry Fountain, title=How a Vast Ice Sheet Put the Squeeze on Earth (and Its Gravity), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=To use a very unscientific term, the earth is squishable . }}
  • *March 2003 , Backpacker - Vol. 31, No. 211
    • On group trips, we like to bring a squishable football. It's light (just a few ounces), packable, and universally popular: Who doesn't love a game of two-hand touch in the great outdoors?

    Derived terms

    *squishably