Squishes vs Squushes - What's the difference?
squishes | squushes |
(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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* 2013 , Anonymous, "
To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
(squush)
A squashing or squelching sound.
* 1949 , William Beebe, High Jungle
A squashing or squelching sound.
* 1942 , Elizabeth Vernon Hubbard, Your Children at School, How They Adjust and Develop
* 1972 , Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters
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
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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.
Derived terms
* squishy English onomatopoeiassquushes
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(head)squush
English
Verb
Noun
(squushes)- 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)- 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 !
- 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 .