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Squish vs Squisher - What's the difference?

squish | squisher |

As nouns the difference between squish and squisher

is that squish is the sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed while squisher is one who, or that which, squishes.

As a verb squish

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

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

    squisher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, squishes.
  • * 2012 , John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed (page 364)
    • In due time fair Kaitlin will graduate to the rigors of Grandma Hannigan's school of culinary arts, where careless cookie dough squishers are cut no slack and even the cutest giggle will merit nothing more than a slightly raised grandmotherly eyebrow.
  • * 2012 , Michael Byrnes, Harvest of Greed (page 4)
    • Now there were blogs. Was this the dismal future of journalism? Or was the real message that we had never needed all those painstakingly-constructed sentences after all? That the Internet had become the ultimate squisher of pedantry world-wide?