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▪ I. squidge, n.1|skwɪdʒ|
[Imitative. In dial. use also denoting ‘a shove’ and, as vb., ‘to squeeze’.]
The sound made by soft mud yielding to sudden pressure.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 111 My companion..steers the boat up to it, and jumps out with a squidge into the black slime. 1905D. Blackburn R. Hartley xvii, The moment he..heard the squidge of the mud, he realised his position and peril.
▪ II. squidge, n.2 U.S. slang. rare.
[Origin unknown.]
One charged with performing troublesome duties for another (see quots.).
1907Ade Slim Princess vii. 80 The squidge—that means the fellow who does all the worrying and gets nothing out of it. 1942― Let. 16 June (1973) 230 When Mr. and Mrs. Al Laflin and I traveled in distant countries, we always hired a ‘squidge’ the moment we arrived in a new town. His job was to stay with us and accept all the hardships and worries. 1953[see patsy n.]
▪ III. squidge, v.
[Cf. squidge n.1; sense 2 may represent an independent imitative formation.)]
trans.
1. To squeeze; to squelch or to mix roughly; to press together, so as to make a sucking noise. Also intr. dial. and colloq.
1881H. & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words 34 Squidge, to squeeze. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath x. 136 The children squidged their toes in the red dust. 1947― Wayward Bus iii. 33 His shoes squidged sloppily on the floor. 1952― East of Eden xxxvi. 427 Now spit in your palm... Squidge the spit all together. 1969Guardian 16 Aug. 3/8 Waiting for the day when lunch will be a blob of something squidged out of a tube. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 242 The leeches were at me... I squidged them underfoot. 1977Basildon Yellow Advertiser 19 May 5/2 To clean very dirty nails make a thick lather in a sponge and then ‘squidge’ your nails in the sponge—the suction will draw out the dirt.
2. Tiddlywinks. To play (a wink) by snapping it with a larger counter.
1955Sci. of Tiddlywinks (Cambridge Univ. Tiddlywinks Club) 8 If the tiddlywink is squidged on the floor it will not rise more than an inch or two. 1962Time 14 Sept. 56 A squopped wink cannot be squidged again until it is de-squopped. 1977Sharp & Piggott Bk. Games 165 No player may squidge another's wink. |