squelch

• It beats me why any writer would want to minimize the connection between high-fiber words (squelch, for instance, or wobble or sniffle [see -le], or the flinch and wince family, or the -udge's, or prestidigitation) and the bodily maneuvers from which they emanate and those they evoke.
• Squeak, squelch, drag, shuffle and still the light dodged on the curtain. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
• The frightened mourners start aghast from the hideous squelch, and weep afresh to see all the hopes and glories of their state thus suddenly ended in smoke and ashes It was in this way exactly that the British treated my brother, major Hugh Horry, as brave a soldier as ever fought in America. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
• The first time he ate with his hand—thoroughly mixing the rice and buttermilk by hand, relishing every wet squelch, and licking the fingers at the end—it'd been impossible to ignore the long watchful silences, rapid blinks, the Flamingo's high laugh, and most hurtful of all, Ganga's startled expression. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
• That's not a brilliant thought or a unique thought, but it's a thought that I too often squelch, as being intricately tied to the economic policies of that dunderhead. —  BlueOregon

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