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Squshed vs Squushed - What's the difference?

squshed | squushed |

As verbs the difference between squshed and squushed

is that squshed is past tense of sqush while squushed is past tense of squush.

squshed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sqush)

    • sqush

    English

    Verb

  • (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
  • *1885 , Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
    • Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden.
  • *1909 , Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls
  • *1965 , Ezra Pound, The Cantos
  • * 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun p. 12 "His feet squshed in the water as he went...He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little".

    • squushed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (squush)

    • 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 .