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  • verb intransitive, US, rare To squash or squelch.

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Onomatopoeic

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Examples

  • Clarion_, and 'sqush' went the juicy rhubarb, completely saturating

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • And from over in the low ground came the "sqush" of the cows as they strode through the rank and sappy clover.

    The Jucklins A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

  • Perhaps very thinly sliced butternut sqush would soften faster than pumpkin?

    Kabak Tatlisi Lindy 2006

  • I try to sqush tehm while tehy ar owt on teh flat part ov teh puter, but I have seen tehm go down betueeen teh keys.

    O Hai …. ur software - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • "What any man in his right mind wants with a thing that ain't nothin 'but wriggles an' hair on the outside an 'sqush on the inside, beats me!" was said more than once.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • 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; and, mind you, it was a thing that was calculated to make most anybody sqush to get fetched such a solid one as that without any notice, because how was he going to know what was tattooed on the man?

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • ANYBODY sqush to get fetched such a solid one as that without any notice, because how was HE going to know what was tattooed on the man?

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • ANYBODY sqush to get fetched such a solid one as that without any notice, because how was HE going to know what was tattooed on the man?

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 Mark Twain 1872

  • November 8, 2008 at but sqush-patch-nut looks like she'd be about a million times more fun in the sack. you know, I am feeling a little sheepish about my years of bush derangement syndrome. you see, some how I got this crazy idea that bush and his supporters were torturing people and destroying the environment and villifying gays and setting back women's rights and destroying the economy.

    Sadly, No! 2008

  • Both are clearly deranged and broken in ways that even sweet sweet loving from hte mighty Dragon-King can fix, but sqush-patch-nut looks like she'd be about a million times more fun in the sack.

    Sadly, No! 2008

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