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Squushed vs Squished - What's the difference?

squushed | squished |

As verbs the difference between squushed and squished

is that squushed is (squush) while squished is (squish).

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 .

    squished

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (squish)

    • 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