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Squishes vs Squushes - What's the difference?

squishes | squushes |

As verbs the difference between squishes and squushes

is that squishes is (squish) while squushes is (squush).

As nouns the difference between squishes and squushes

is that squishes is while squushes is .

squishes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (squish)
  • Noun

    (head)

  • 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

    squushes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (squush)
  • Noun

    (head)

  • squush

    English

    Verb

  • Noun

    (squushes)
  • A squashing or squelching sound.
  • * 1949 , William Beebe, High Jungle
  • A few yards downstream was a stretch of sloping rock and moss, and here all clamor ceased: only the close-placed ear could detect the muffled squush .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A squashing or squelching sound.
  • * 1942 , Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and Develop
  • Some men in the cellar were mixing mortar in trays with hoes. We watched them put sand and cement and lime and water together. Squush !
  • * 1972 , Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters
  • They looked down at the ants and other bugs they saw and felt enormously big and powerful. They pretended the bugs were people. "Got me a dozen!" Squush .