Squisher vs Squishes - What's the difference?
squisher | squishes |
One who, or that which, squishes.
* 2012 , John C. Gallagher, The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed (page 364)
* 2012 , Michael Byrnes, Harvest of Greed (page 4)
(squish)
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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, date = 1999 November 21
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* 2013 , Anonymous, "
To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
As nouns the difference between squisher and squishes
is that squisher is one who, or that which, squishes while squishes is plural of lang=en.As a verb squishes is
third-person singular of squish.squisher
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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?
squishes
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(head)squish
English
Noun
(es)- WHY do you think I find it so disturbing? Diane having a squish on me.
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)- The sandwich tasted fine, even though it got squished in his lunchbox.