squish

1 walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" [syn: squelch, splash, splosh, slosh, slop]

2 put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

see squash

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

Noun

1. A political moderate (derogatory term used by conservative activists in the 1980s)

Verb

1. To squeeze, compress, or crush.

   The sandwich tasted fine, even though it got squished in his lunchbox.

Translations

Derived terms

• squishy

Squish may also refer to:

In politics

• Squish - a term used in the 1980s to describe Republicans who were considered insufficiently conservative by party loyalists. Compare RINO.

In computing

• Squish (FidoNet), a FidoNet mail tossing application and the primary mail storage format is uses.
• Ogg Squish, a lossless audio compression codec.
• A commercial automated testing tool offered by froglogic GmbH.
• A commercial bug tracking tool offered by Information Management Services, Inc.

Other

• The Crush fetish or films in that genre.

assibilate, assibilation, atomize, bear, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, buzz, crash, crowd, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, demolish, diffuse, disperse, disrupt, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fission, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, fragment, frication, frictional rustling, grind, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, jam, lisp, make mincemeat of, mince, pulverize, push, rhonchus, scatter, shatter, shiver, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, smash, smash up, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splinter, splutter, sputter, squab, squash, squeeze, squelch, sternutation, stertor, swish, wheeze, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zip