squashn.¹

Brit.

/skwɒʃ/, U.S.

/skwɔʃ/,

/skwɑʃ/

Etymology: Related to, or directly from, squash v.¹

I. Something that is soft or unripe, and related uses.

a. The unripe pod of a pea. Also applied contemptuously to persons. Obsolete exc. archaic.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant

unknownc1390

pawnc1450

semi-cipher?1550

bauble1570

Jack with the feather1581

nobody1583

winterling1585

squash1600

rush candle1628

niflec1635

nullity1657

nonentity1710

featherweight1812

underscrub1822

nyaff1825

small fish1836

no-account1840

little fish1846

peanut1864

commonplacer1874

sparrow-fart1886

Little Willie1901

pipsqueak1905

nebbish1907

pie-biter1911

blob1916

smallie1930

no-count1932

zilch1933

Mickey Mouse1935

muzhik1945

nerd1951

nothingburger1953

nerk1955

non-person1959

no-mark1982

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > pea-pod, pea-shell, or pea seed

peascodc1390

pease-hulla1425

pippina1450

squash1600

pea-hull1717

pea-cod1721

pea shell1744

pea pod1772

shaup1822

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 178 I pray you commend mee to mistresse Squash, your mother, and to master Peascod, your father.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 152 As a squash is before tis a pescod.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 162 This Kernell, This Squash, this Gentleman.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. i. 34 The whole time..my mind was simply in the state of a squash before 'tis a peascod.]

b. dialect. (See quot. 1895.)

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1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 210 Squash,..pea-pods which look full but are really empty.

†2. squash pear, a variety of pear. squash perry, a beverage made from this. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of

calewey1377

honey peara1400

pome-pear1440

pome-wardena1513

choke-pear1530

muscadel1555

worry pear1562

lording1573

bon-chrétienc1575

Burgundian pear1578

king pear1585

pound pear1585

poppering1597

wood of Jerusalem1597

muscadine1598

amiot1600

bergamot1600

butter pear1600

dew-pear1600

greening1600

mollart1600

roset1600

wax pear1600

bottle pear1601

gourd-pear1601

Venerian pear1601

musk pear1611

rose pear1611

pusill1615

Christian1629

nutmeg1629

rolling pear1629

surreine1629

sweater1629

amber pear1638

Venus-pear1648

horse-pear1657

Martin1658

russet1658

rousselet1660

diego1664

frith-pear1664

maudlin1664

Messire Jean1664

primate1664

sovereign1664

spindle-pear1664

stopple-pear1664

sugar-pear1664

virgin1664

Windsor pear1664

violet-pear1666

nonsuch1674

muscat1675

burnt-cat1676

squash pear1676

rose1678

Longueville1681

maiden-heart1685

ambrette1686

vermilion1691

admiral1693

sanguinole1693

satin1693

St. Germain pear1693

pounder pear1697

vine-pear1704

amadot1706

marchioness1706

marquise1706

Margaret1707

short-neck1707

musk1708

burree1719

marquis1728

union pear1728

Doyenne pear1731

Magdalene1731

beurré1736

colmar1736

Monsieur Jean1736

muscadella1736

swan's egg1736

chaumontel1755

St Michael's pear1796

Williams1807

Marie Louise1817

seckel1817

Bartlett1828

vergaloo1828

Passe Colmar1837

glou-morceau1859

London sugar1860

snow-pear1860

Comice1866

Kieffer pear1880

sand pear1880

sandy pear1884

snowy pear1884

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun] > perry

perryc1330

squash perry1826

1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 170 Pears that are esteemed for their Vinous Juice in Worcestershire and those adjacent parts, are the Red and Green Squash-pears.

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 167 Pears..Red Squash, Bosbery, Watford.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Perry Of these the Bosbury pear, the Bareland pear, and the horse pear, are the most esteemed for perry in Worcestershire, and the squash pear, as it is called, in Gloucestershire.

1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 167 Squash perry, in ordinary seasons, [sells] from £4 to £8 the hhd.

a. A soft india-rubber ball used in a form of the game of rackets (originally at Harrow). Also attributive, as squash-ball, squash-court, squash-racket (= the bat used in the game), squash-rackets (= the game); squash tennis n. U.S. a game similar to squash rackets, played with a lawn-tennis ball.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun]

squash-rackets1886

squash1899

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > court

squash-court1886

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > equipment

squash1886

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun]

sphairistike1874

squash1899

squash tennis1901

paddle tennis1922

platform paddle tennis1935

platform tennis1955

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 May 14/1 The game in question, termed ‘squash’ rackets at Harrow if my memory serves me... There are the ‘squashes’—that is, soft indiarubber balls—to be purchased.

1899 E. H. Miles Lessons Lawn Tennis 87 Turn that wall into a squash-racket court.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 8/2 Mr. John Jacob Astor has built a private ‘squash’ court.

1901 E. Miles Game of Squash i. 16 Americans generally use a Lawn-Tennis ball..and a Squash-Tennis racket, which is like a miniature Lawn-Tennis racket.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill ii. 26 He bought..a ‘squash’ racquet, ‘squash’ balls, and a yard ball.

1917 National Squash Tennis Assoc. Rules 18 Description and specifications of a Squash Tennis Court, as adopted by the National Squash Tennis Association... The dimensions of a Standard Court shall be..Length 32 feet 6 inches Width 17 feet.

1928 N.Y. Times 12 Dec. 32/6 The success of the American players in the English squash racquets tournament... At the [American] colleges..squash racquets became more popular.

1930 A. Danzig Racquet Game iii. i. 157 The two varieties of squash—squash tennis and squash racquets—have so much in common that they may be called first cousins.

1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 375/3 Squash tennis, which was invented in Boston in 1890, is a purely American game.

1973 Times 28 Sept. 5/6 There is a wide disparity between the international and American versions of squash rackets.

1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 985/1 The squash racket is not as strong as the rackets racket.

1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 992/2 Squash tennis was born in a school in Concord, New Hampshire,..but..was refined by Feron, of New York, who first wrapped netting round the ball.

b. elliptical for squash rackets or occasionally (U.S.), squash tennis.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun]

squash-rackets1886

squash1899

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun]

sphairistike1874

squash1899

squash tennis1901

paddle tennis1922

platform paddle tennis1935

platform tennis1955

1899 N.Y. World 8 Aug. 14/4 ‘Squash’.. is a variation of the time-honored court tennis.

1902 E. Miles (title) Racquets, tennis and squash.

1930¹ [see sense 3a].

1952 J. B. Pick Phoenix Dict. Games 183 Squash is played with a rubber ball on a four-walled court.

1952 J. B. Pick Phoenix Dict. Games 185 Service in squash is not the deadly weapon it is in rackets.

1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 986/1 Squash is derived from, and has much in common with, the much older game of rackets, and originated at Harrow School.

II. The action of squashing or crushing, and related uses.

a. The act of squashing; the fact or sound of some soft substance being crushed or dispersed.

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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure > flattening by pressure

squattinga1400

squashing1598

squash1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escachure,..a squash, crush, knock, or squeeze (wherby a thing is flatted, or beaten close together).

1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 249 Anon, our Hero's Boots, well-soak'd with Wash, At ev'ry Step return'd a dreadful Squash.

b. The shock or impact occasioned by a soft heavy body falling upon a surface; the sound produced by this. Also in with a squash.

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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > soft

squash1654

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > soft impact

lunchc1440

squelch1620

squash1654

dowf1818

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 74 The place, the fall, the squash, the hugge,..did so confound our Votary, that he could not containe.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. ii. 12 I shall throw down the Burden with a squash amongst them, take it up who dares.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 143 My Fall was stopped by a terrible Squash, that sounded louder to mine Ears than the Cataract of Niagara.

1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet III. 131 This uncommon mass of mortality rolled on to a seat next to Zaire, on which she sunk with a mighty squash.

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 107 Hearing a squash, he cried, Damn it, what's that?

c. to go to squash, to become squashed or ruined.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end

losec888

fallOE

forlesea1225

perishc1275

spilla1300

to go to wreche13..

to go to the gatec1330

to go to lostc1374

miscarryc1387

quenchc1390

to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400

mischieve?a1400

tinea1400

to go to the devilc1405

bursta1450

untwindc1460

to make shipwreck1526

to go to (the) pot1531

to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547

wrake1570

wracka1586

to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587

to lie in the dusta1591

mischief1598

to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599

shipwreck1607

suffera1616

unravel1643

to fall off1684

tip (over) the perch1699

to do away with1769

to go to the dickens1833

collapse1838

to come (also go) a mucker1851

mucker1862

to go up1864

to go to squash1889

to go (to) stramash1910

to go for a burton1941

to meet one's Makera1978

1889 Froude Table-talk Shirley 205 It has all gone to squash.

a. College Football slang. = scrimmage n. 3.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scrum

scrimmage1848

squash1857

loose scrummage1874

scrum1876

tight1904

loose ruck1906

set scrum1925

scrum-down1943

1857 Symonds Let. in H. F. Brown Life (1903) iii. 58 A squash is a large collection of boys, about twenty, with the football in the midst of them.

1867 Routledge's Handbk. Football 51 A disputed ‘touch-down’, in consequence of the ball having been carried in by a squash or otherwise.

b. A crush or crowd of persons, etc.; a large number.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > large or numerous

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cloudc1384

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meiniec1450

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ruckc1540

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regiment1575

armya1586

volley1595

pile1596

battalion1603

wood1608

host1613

armada1622

crowd1628

battalia1653

squadron1668

raffa1677

smytrie1786

raft1821

squash1884

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > densely packed together

threatc950

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thring?c1225

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throngc1330

shockc1430

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frequency1570

gregation1621

frequence1671

push1718

munga1728

mampus?c1730

squeezer1756

squeeze1779

crush1806

cram1810

parrock1811

mass1814

scrouge1839

squash1884

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 4 Young Lord Horsewhipborough is just passing as slowly as the modern squash compels one to progress.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. ii. 178 Your father made a will, Only there was not anything to will Except a squash of sermons.

c. A social gathering; an informal religious or literary meeting.

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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun]

companyc1300

assemblya1616

redoubt1698

assemblée1712

powwow1812

social1857

bear fight1861

corroboree1885

squash1904

1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. iii. xiv. 252 The intrinsic oddity of the London ‘squash’, a thing of vague, slow, senseless eddies.

1916 L. Einstein Let. 31 July in Holmes-Einstein Lett. (1964) ii. 134 The season, however, which I loathe, was rendered nicer by the war..no more fat squashes but agreeable dinners and luncheons.

1938 M. Whitlow J. Taylor Smith xi. 114 The Intervarsity Christian Fellowship have a ‘date’ with him for a series of ‘Squashes’ at Oxford and Cambridge.

1977 L. Gordon Eliot's Early Years iii. 47 In 1912, Conrad Aiken took ‘Prufrock’ to a ‘poetry squash’ in London and showed it to Harold Monro.

1979 PN Review 13 19/1 Lord, you know that next week is the Freshers' Squash.

a. Something which is squashed or crushed.

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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure

squelch1837

squash1888

1888 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/2 It seemed churlish to pass him by without a sign, especially as he took off his squash of a hat to me.

b. Biology. A preparation of softened tissue that has been made thin for microscopic examination by pressing or tapping.

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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > sample

spread1895

smear1903

squash1942

sonicate1955

stabilate1965

1942 C. D. Darlington & L. F. La Cour Handling of Chromosomes v. 40 Sections have now been largely replaced by smears and squashes for all but the smallest masses of material.

1971 Nature 18 June 452/2 Fifty cells of three females and thirty-two cells of four males were examined. A testis squash was also made to give meiotic figures.

1981 Japanese Jrnl. Genetics 56 529 This method enables the observation of both C-banding patterns and the karyotypes by aceto-orcein squash technique in the same chromosome complement.

7. Short for lemon squash n. at lemon n.¹ Compounds 2. Also, a drink made from the juice of crushed fruit other than lemons; = crush n. 4e. Frequently as second element of combinations: see lime squash n. at lime n.² Compounds 2, orange squash n. at orange n.¹ and adj.¹ Compounds 2a(c).

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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun]

cordial1861

squash1894

crush1919

the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > lemon juice or squash

lemon-juice1617

lemon squash1876

squash1894

citron pressé1916

1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 203 A smaller table held ices, squashes, and such.

1904 D. B. W. Sladen When we were Lovers in Japan ii. iv She..kept her mouth intently on the straw in her squash.

1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vii. 644 Will you have a squash and a biscuit?

1936 Discovery June 192/1 Fruit Squashes, containing the pulp of the fruit, were analogous to the well-known orange and lemon squashes. The blackcurrant squash was remarkable for its delicate flavour.

1939 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies (rev. ed.) x. 99 Jane suggested that they should..have a lemon-squash... Ernest did not want a squash.

1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 185 ‘Come on in and I'll make you a squash.’.. Meg squeezed a lemon for his drink.

1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 913 Most fruit squashes are unsuitable for babies.

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squash bite n. Dentistry an impression of the teeth made by biting the jaws together on a piece of plastic material.

1914 N. G. Bennett Sci. & Pract. Dental Surg. xxxvii. 607/1 A ‘squash bite’ impression, or even one taken in the ordinary way in a tray, is very easily distorted in removing from the mouth.

1940 J. Osborne Dental Mech. v. 47 It is usual if this type of block is used to have taken a ‘squash bite’ at the impression stage.

1963 C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns, & Bridges ii. 10 The relationship of the prepared tooth to adjacent and opposing teeth must be recorded in the indirect technique with a wax or an alginate squash bite.

Draft additions 1993

ˈsquasher n.² U.S. one who plays squash rackets, a squash player.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > player

squasher1977

1977 Dun's Rev. Sept. 73/3 A squasher can belong to his Broad Street Club for $50 a year plus $8 per prime-time half hour.

1987 Christian Sci. Monitor 16 Nov. 18/4 Veteran squashers, however, teach more than how to win trophies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

squashn.²

Brit.

/skwɒʃ/, U.S.

/skwɔʃ/,

/skwɑʃ/

Forms: Also 1700s squosh.

Etymology: Shortened < Narragansett asquutasquash < asq raw, uncooked. Compare squanter-squash n., quash n.¹ (The -ash is a plural ending, as in succotash.)

a. A gourd produced by one or other of various species of trailing herbaceous annual plants belonging to the genus Cucurbita or N.O. Cucurbitaceæ, esp. a fruit of the bush gourd, C. Melopepo.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash

melon-pompion1577

simnel1640

squash1643

cushaw1698

simlin1775

squash-pumpkin1819

squash gourd1823

summer crookneck1832

melon pumpkin1840

bush gourd1842

crook-neck1844

Hubbard squash1868

mirliton1901

butternut pumpkin1916

buttercup1930

butternut1940

1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. 103 Askutasquash, their Vine aples, which the English from them call Squashes, about the bignesse of Apples, of severall colours, sweet, light, wholesome, refreshing.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 259 In a weighed quantity of digged earth..he set the seed of a squash.

1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 4) II. 174 Squashes are a small sort of Pumpkin lately brought into request.

1764 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (1765) 35 A dearth..caused them to fall upon their pompions, squoshes, &c. before they were ripe.

1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 10 It we strip off the coats from the large and flat seed of a Squash or Pumpkin, we find nothing but the embryo within.

1877 W. Matthews Ethnogr. Hidatsa 26 Squashes are cut in thin slices and dried; the dried squash is usually cooked by boiling.

b. Used in singular with the, or without article.

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1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iv. §xxxii. 205 Dr. Russell tells us that the squash comes in towards the end of September, and continues all the year.

1878 W. Black Green Pastures xl Not at all desirous of eating at one and the same time boiled beans,..green corn, squash and sweet potatoes.

1902 Fortn. Rev. June 1007 The divine ‘sweet corn’, and ‘squash’, and ‘sweet potatoes’.

2. One or other species of Cucurbita producing the above fruit; the genus as a whole.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash > squash plants

squash1661

1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist ii. 107 A selected seed of..Squash, which is an Indian kind of Pompion, that Growes a pace.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Melopepo, The Squash.

1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 26 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Here is a native gourd or squash, which runs 20 foot up the trees.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 358/1 Cucurbita melopepo, the Squash, forms a bush about 3 ft. high.

1884 de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 252 The Cucurbitaceæ called squash by the Anglo-Americans.

3. With distinctive premodifiers: (see quots.).

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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Melopepo The common or flat Squash... The large white Squash... The Citron-shap'd Squash... The warted Squash.

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 137 It is exceedingly curious to behold the Wild Squash climbing over the lofty limbs of the trees.

1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. App. 284 Cucurbita..ovifera, (egg-squash).

1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 96/1 C. verrucosa, club squash.

1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 142 C. melopepo... Flat Squash.

1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 142 C. ovifera... Egg Squash... C. verrucosa... Club Squash.

1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 60 Cucurbita melopepo..Round Squash.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 359/1 The Custard Marrow Squash, and the improved Custard Marrow or Bush Squash.

1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1344/1 Summer Squash, Cucurbita Pepo. Winter Squash, Cucurbita maxima.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.Also, in recent American dictionaries, squash-beetle, squash-(vine) borer, squash flea-beetle, squash ladybird, and squash ladybug, as names of insects infesting squashes.

squash bed n.

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1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 39 The Cucumber and Squash tribe.

squash pie n.

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1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 213/1 Cranberry sauce, and thick squash pies.

squash seed n.

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1708 S. Sewall Diary 15 Jan. (1973) I. 585 This day Mr. Belchar brings me Squash-Seeds from Dedham.

squash shell n.

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1725 S. Willard in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 238 They found 2 wigwarms;..they also found a paddle and some squash shells in one of them.

squash soup n.

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1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 62 We dined on Indian corn and squash soop, and boiled bread.

squash vine n.

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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 137 The Squash-vine is long and trailing.

1855 Poultry Chron. 3 297 They will nearly get their living on insects without injuring the vegetables. Among squash vines they are indispensable.

C2.

squash-berry n. the red berry of Viburnum pauciflorum, a deciduous North American shrub; = mooseberry n. at moose n.² Compounds 2.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries

hedge-berry1607

elderberry1625

ramble-berry1658

cloudberry1743

Indian pear1796

bluet1812

squawberry1829

pigface1830

wax-berry1835

quandong1836

strawberry guava1901

bead-berry1923

squash-berry1935

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries

blueberry1594

hedge-berry1607

elderberry1625

huckleberry1670

bearberry1677

cloudberry1743

baked apple1750

pembina1760

service1785

honeyberry1787

nub-berry1794

bluet1812

noop1817

squawberry1829

quandong1836

miro1838

strawberry guava1901

squash-berry1935

tayberry1977

tummelberry1984

1935 Lady Rockley Wild Flowers Great Dominions Brit. Empire 60 Its [sc. Viburnum pauciflorum's] berries known as the ‘Squash-berry’ are gathered and make an excellent preserve.

1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 32 He even shook his head at bakeapple jam, squashberry jelly and ‘meshberries’.

1974 J. E. Underhill Wild Berries Pacific Northwest 23 Huckleberries, Blueberries, Squash-berries, and many others, may be made into delicious jams.

squash blossom n. the flower of the plant on which squashes grow, applied attributively to jewellery made by the Navajo which is characterized by designs (of Spanish, and ult. Moorish, derivation, representing pomegranates) resembling this flower.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun]

ringOE

beec1009

languet1378

Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406

tablet?a1425

fetterlock1463

serpent-tongue1488

triangle1529

flory1530

gorget1570

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medallion1658

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teardrop1870

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scaraboid1879

scarabaeoid1887

squash blossom1923

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [adjective] > specific shape or form

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [adjective] > of or relating to squash or pumpkin > of squash blossom

squash blossom1923

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash > squash plants > blossom on

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1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 19 The fig, the horseshoe, the squash-blossom. Symbols.

1930 D. Coolidge & M. R. Coolidge Navajo Indians xvi. 115 The beautiful squash-blossom pendants which the Hopis like so much.

1944 J. Adair Navajo & Pueblo Silversmiths v. 83 I watched Charie make other pieces. One of them was a squash-blossom bead.

1950 S. H. Babington Navajos, Gods & Tom-toms xv. 170 The pronged pieces in the beautiful so-called squash blossom necklace are the buttons which were sewed along the outside seams..of Spanish army officers' pants.

1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) ii. 10/2 Carol..had embellished it with her trademark jewelry: an authentic squash-blossom necklace.

squash-bug n. one or other of various insects infesting or injurious to squashes.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > injurious to squashes

squash-bug1847

1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Squash-bug, the common name of a bug injurious to squashes.

1866 H. B. Stowe Little Foxes 124 In the actual garden there are..squash-bugs for all the melons.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table ix Dor-bugs and squash-bugs and such undesirable objects of affection to all but naturalists.

squash gourd n. = squash-pumpkin n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash

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butternut pumpkin1916

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1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. (at cited word) Squash-gourd, the Cucurbita melopepo of Linnæus.

squash-pumpkin n. (also squash-melon pumpkin) the common bush gourd or squash, Cucurbita Melopepo.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash

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buttercup1930

butternut1940

1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 391 With regard to these said quasheys (which, I believe, is their name,—first cousins to the squash pumpkin).

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 605 The Squash-melon pumpkin, or bush gourd.

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squash knife n. U.S. historical a thin, flat knife made from the scapula of a mammal, usually a buffalo, by North American Indians, esp. the Hidatsa, to slice squash and other soft vegetables.

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1917 E. Goodbird in G. L. Wilson Agric. of Hidatsa Indians v. 71 Each of the old women had a squash knife in her hand, made of the thin part of the shoulder bone of a buffalo, if it was an old-fashioned one; butcher knives of steel are now used.

1931 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Nov. 10 The Indian of half a century ago was..economical of the buffalo he shot down... The shoulderblades were used in the manufacture of hoes and squash knives, spades and other tools.

1959 W. R. Wedel Introd. Kansas Archeol. 454 A thin flat subrectangular piece, measuring 28 by 65 mm., has been cut from the blade of a scapula digging tool. One long edge shows the thin beveling of the original tool blade; the other edges have been rounded and smoothed, beyond doubt purposely. The piece may have been a ‘squash knife’ or something for similar use.

1991 L. Bryan Buffalo People 175 If the Cluny inhabitants were immigrants from the farming villages on the Missouri, where were their squash knives, their scapula hoes and other digging implements?

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† squashn.³

Etymology: Aphetic < musquash n.

Obsolete.

The musk-rat or musquash, Fiber zibethicus.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Ondatra (musk-rat)

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1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Squash, a little Creature in some parts of America, somewhat resembling an Ichnumon or Indian Rat.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 59 The Squash is a four-footed Beast, bigger than a Cat.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 380 But the smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats, is fragrance itself when compared to that of the squash and the skink.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 201 Another stinkard, called the Squash, is said by Buffon to be found in some of the southern states.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 116 As..the Skink and squash, are treated by American Woodmen, who turn their backs upon the fetid Intruder.

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squashv.¹

Brit.

/skwɒʃ/, U.S.

/skwɔʃ/,

/skwɑʃ/

Etymology: < Old French esquasser (escasser ), esquacer (escacier ), = Italian squassare < popular Latin *ex-quassāre : see quash v. In some senses, however, perhaps partly or mainly of imitative origin.

a. transitive. To squeeze, press, or crush into a flat mass or pulp; to beat to, or dash in, pieces, etc. Also with prepositions, as in, to.

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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > make broad in relation to thickness [verb (transitive)] > make thin and flat by pressure

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1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. ii. x. f. 61 Ye must, I saye, teare them, rent them, and squasshe them to peeces.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 540 But the top of the gallery fell downe apon the boyes that were left, and squashed them all to death.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 289 The hennes..hide themselues from their males the cocks; for..they would squash their egs.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 277 Squashing and beating them vpon some stone,..shee made our cloathes reasonable white.

1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) ix. 58 Note, that in sowing the Berry 'tis good to squash and bruise them with fine siefted Mould.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 11 One of the Reapers..made me apprehend that..I should be squashed to Death under his Foot.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 58 In shuffling the cards,..squashing them together, breaking their edges [etc.].

1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 186 There have indeed been..men who have piled such a load of books on their heads, their brains have seemed to be squasht by them.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 327 There were eight elephants killed that day, but three burst through everything,..squashing two men and a baby.

figurative.1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times 24/1 More cleerly will we yet reueale their grosse absurditie, and..squash in pieces their unexcusable error.1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 60 Between crinolines and theories, some of us would get squashed.

b. With adverbs, as down, up.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escraser, to squash downe, beat flat.

1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 105 A sort of wrought lime, which being squashed down upon the bridge..has a most terrible effect.

1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 320 I was not able to accompany my host, but had to be squashed up in the crowd.

c. To quash; to suppress or put down; to undo or destroy in a complete or summary manner.Also, in recent colloquial use, to silence, discomfit, or repress (a person) in a very decisive or crushing way.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)

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to wrestle down?1611

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to choke back, down, in, out1690

to nip or crush in the bud1746

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to get under1799

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to stamp out1851

to trample down1853

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to sit upon ——1864

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to drive under1920

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid

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a1777 S. Foote Orators ii, in Dramatic Wks. (1788) II. 37 I therefore, humbly move to squash [earlier quash] this indictment.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xviii. 269 I, to squash my convictions, to stultify my book for the sake of popularity, money, patronage!

1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 258 The report spread that I had broken down completely, or, as a Johnian elegantly expressed it, was squashed.

1895 Law Times 98 280/2 The Pharmaceutical Society made a strenuous attempt to squash the Stores as vendors of drugs.

†2.

a. To press or squeeze out. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > twist, wring, or squeeze out

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1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 59 Now squashing out their bellies soft and round.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 372 The battalions troden under foot and their guts squashed out.

†b. To splash or dash (water) upon a person; to wet by splashing. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > on or upon a person

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a1602–3 Queen Elizabeth in I. H. Jeayes Cat. Charters Berkeley Castle (1892) 323 I somewhat still doute that ther hath bene to greate abundance of the same [sc. water] squasshed upon you.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Squash, v., to splash; to moisten by plentiful affusion.

3. intransitive. To emit or make a splashing sound; to move, walk, etc., in this way; to splash.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with splashing noise

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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > through a liquid

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splash

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1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. lv. 142 Ascites is when much Water is heaped up between the Peritoneum and the Bowels, so that when it is struck it doth squash as it were.

1839 T. Hood Ode to St. Swithin vii Why upon snow-white table-cloths and sheets..Come squashing?

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. ii. 4 Once more, the Dover mail struggled on, with the Jack-boots of its passengers squashing along by its side.

1893 Outing 22 139/1 Our feet ‘squashing’ as we step, for our boots are full of rain-water.

4. To be pressed into a flat mass on impact; to flatten out under pressure.Cf. Florio's use of squashing participial adjective (quot. 1611 at sense 1b below).

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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > become broad in relation to thickness [verb (intransitive)] > be flattened by pressure

squash1858

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 121 Some other mixtures..sufficiently strong to resist all tendency to squash; as the softer metals would inevitably do.

1893 Scribner's Mag. June 710/1 There must be the most skilful handling, lest the load ‘squash out’.

Derivatives

ˈsquasher n.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Quasseur, a squasher, breaker.

ˈsquashing n. and adj.

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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [adjective] > flattening by pressure

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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure > flattening by pressure

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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squaccio, a squashing, a hauocke.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escrasement, a crushing flat, a squashing downe.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Squala,..a kind of soft squashing Hazle-nut.

1865 S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor ii A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow.

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squashv.²

Etymology: < squash n.¹ 5b.

rare.

intransitive. To frequent crowded assemblies.

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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > give or attend fashionable gatherings

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squash1867

1867 J. L. Motley Let. 22 July. in Corr. (1889) II. viii. 269 How anything can be done in London but breakfast, lunch, dine, and squash, if one really goes in for ‘promiscuous Ned’, I can't comprehend.

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squashadv.

Etymology: < squash v.¹

With or as with a squash. Frequently in to go squash (also transferred).

ΚΠ

1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide iv. ii. 28 His Wig had the Luck a Cathartic to meet, And squash went the Gallipot under his Feet.

1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 246 He came down, in less than no time, squash on his nose, and broke it.

1886 G. Allen & M. Cotes Kalee's Shrine ii Some cottages may really go squash before long.

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also refers to : squash-comb. form

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单词	squash
释义	squashn.¹ Brit. /skwɒʃ/, U.S. /skwɔʃ/, /skwɑʃ/ Etymology: Related to, or directly from, squash v.¹ I. Something that is soft or unripe, and related uses. 1. a. The unripe pod of a pea. Also applied contemptuously to persons. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant unknownc1390 pawnc1450 semi-cipher?1550 bauble1570 Jack with the feather1581 nobody1583 winterling1585 squash1600 rush candle1628 niflec1635 nullity1657 nonentity1710 featherweight1812 underscrub1822 nyaff1825 small fish1836 no-account1840 little fish1846 peanut1864 commonplacer1874 sparrow-fart1886 Little Willie1901 pipsqueak1905 nebbish1907 pie-biter1911 blob1916 smallie1930 no-count1932 zilch1933 Mickey Mouse1935 muzhik1945 nerd1951 nothingburger1953 nerk1955 non-person1959 no-mark1982 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > pea-pod, pea-shell, or pea seed peascodc1390 pease-hulla1425 pippina1450 squash1600 pea-hull1717 pea-cod1721 pea shell1744 pea pod1772 shaup1822 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 178 I pray you commend mee to mistresse Squash, your mother, and to master Peascod, your father. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 152 As a squash is before tis a pescod. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 162 This Kernell, This Squash, this Gentleman. View more context for this quotation 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. i. 34 The whole time..my mind was simply in the state of a squash before 'tis a peascod.] b. dialect. (See quot. 1895.) ΚΠ 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 210 Squash,..pea-pods which look full but are really empty. †2. squash pear, a variety of pear. squash perry, a beverage made from this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of calewey1377 honey peara1400 pome-pear1440 pome-wardena1513 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 worry pear1562 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 pound pear1585 poppering1597 wood of Jerusalem1597 muscadine1598 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 mollart1600 roset1600 wax pear1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 Venerian pear1601 musk pear1611 rose pear1611 pusill1615 Christian1629 nutmeg1629 rolling pear1629 surreine1629 sweater1629 amber pear1638 Venus-pear1648 horse-pear1657 Martin1658 russet1658 rousselet1660 diego1664 frith-pear1664 maudlin1664 Messire Jean1664 primate1664 sovereign1664 spindle-pear1664 stopple-pear1664 sugar-pear1664 virgin1664 Windsor pear1664 violet-pear1666 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 squash pear1676 rose1678 Longueville1681 maiden-heart1685 ambrette1686 vermilion1691 admiral1693 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 pounder pear1697 vine-pear1704 amadot1706 marchioness1706 marquise1706 Margaret1707 short-neck1707 musk1708 burree1719 marquis1728 union pear1728 Doyenne pear1731 Magdalene1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 Monsieur Jean1736 muscadella1736 swan's egg1736 chaumontel1755 St Michael's pear1796 Williams1807 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 Bartlett1828 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 snow-pear1860 Comice1866 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 snowy pear1884 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun] > perry perryc1330 squash perry1826 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 170 Pears that are esteemed for their Vinous Juice in Worcestershire and those adjacent parts, are the Red and Green Squash-pears. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 167 Pears..Red Squash, Bosbery, Watford. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Perry Of these the Bosbury pear, the Bareland pear, and the horse pear, are the most esteemed for perry in Worcestershire, and the squash pear, as it is called, in Gloucestershire. 1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 167 Squash perry, in ordinary seasons, [sells] from £4 to £8 the hhd. 3. a. A soft india-rubber ball used in a form of the game of rackets (originally at Harrow). Also attributive, as squash-ball, squash-court, squash-racket (= the bat used in the game), squash-rackets (= the game); squash tennis n. U.S. a game similar to squash rackets, played with a lawn-tennis ball. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] squash-rackets1886 squash1899 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > court squash-court1886 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > equipment squash1886 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun] sphairistike1874 squash1899 squash tennis1901 paddle tennis1922 platform paddle tennis1935 platform tennis1955 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 May 14/1 The game in question, termed ‘squash’ rackets at Harrow if my memory serves me... There are the ‘squashes’—that is, soft indiarubber balls—to be purchased. 1899 E. H. Miles Lessons Lawn Tennis 87 Turn that wall into a squash-racket court. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 8/2 Mr. John Jacob Astor has built a private ‘squash’ court. 1901 E. Miles Game of Squash i. 16 Americans generally use a Lawn-Tennis ball..and a Squash-Tennis racket, which is like a miniature Lawn-Tennis racket. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill ii. 26 He bought..a ‘squash’ racquet, ‘squash’ balls, and a yard ball. 1917 National Squash Tennis Assoc. Rules 18 Description and specifications of a Squash Tennis Court, as adopted by the National Squash Tennis Association... The dimensions of a Standard Court shall be..Length 32 feet 6 inches Width 17 feet. 1928 N.Y. Times 12 Dec. 32/6 The success of the American players in the English squash racquets tournament... At the [American] colleges..squash racquets became more popular. 1930 A. Danzig Racquet Game iii. i. 157 The two varieties of squash—squash tennis and squash racquets—have so much in common that they may be called first cousins. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 375/3 Squash tennis, which was invented in Boston in 1890, is a purely American game. 1973 Times 28 Sept. 5/6 There is a wide disparity between the international and American versions of squash rackets. 1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 985/1 The squash racket is not as strong as the rackets racket. 1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 992/2 Squash tennis was born in a school in Concord, New Hampshire,..but..was refined by Feron, of New York, who first wrapped netting round the ball. b. elliptical for squash rackets or occasionally (U.S.), squash tennis. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] squash-rackets1886 squash1899 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun] sphairistike1874 squash1899 squash tennis1901 paddle tennis1922 platform paddle tennis1935 platform tennis1955 1899 N.Y. World 8 Aug. 14/4 ‘Squash’.. is a variation of the time-honored court tennis. 1902 E. Miles (title) Racquets, tennis and squash. 1930¹ [see sense 3a]. 1952 J. B. Pick Phoenix Dict. Games 183 Squash is played with a rubber ball on a four-walled court. 1952 J. B. Pick Phoenix Dict. Games 185 Service in squash is not the deadly weapon it is in rackets. 1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 986/1 Squash is derived from, and has much in common with, the much older game of rackets, and originated at Harrow School. II. The action of squashing or crushing, and related uses. 4. a. The act of squashing; the fact or sound of some soft substance being crushed or dispersed. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure > flattening by pressure squattinga1400 squashing1598 squash1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escachure,..a squash, crush, knock, or squeeze (wherby a thing is flatted, or beaten close together). 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 249 Anon, our Hero's Boots, well-soak'd with Wash, At ev'ry Step return'd a dreadful Squash. b. The shock or impact occasioned by a soft heavy body falling upon a surface; the sound produced by this. Also in with a squash. ΘΠ the world > movement > impact > [noun] > soft squash1654 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > soft impact lunchc1440 squelch1620 squash1654 dowf1818 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 74 The place, the fall, the squash, the hugge,..did so confound our Votary, that he could not containe. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. ii. 12 I shall throw down the Burden with a squash amongst them, take it up who dares. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 143 My Fall was stopped by a terrible Squash, that sounded louder to mine Ears than the Cataract of Niagara. 1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet III. 131 This uncommon mass of mortality rolled on to a seat next to Zaire, on which she sunk with a mighty squash. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 107 Hearing a squash, he cried, Damn it, what's that? c. to go to squash, to become squashed or ruined. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (intransitive)] > be destroyed, ruined, or come to an end losec888 fallOE forlesea1225 perishc1275 spilla1300 to go to wreche13.. to go to the gatec1330 to go to lostc1374 miscarryc1387 quenchc1390 to bring unto, to fall into, to go, put, or work to wrakea1400 mischieve?a1400 tinea1400 to go to the devilc1405 bursta1450 untwindc1460 to make shipwreck1526 to go to (the) pot1531 to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547 wrake1570 wracka1586 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 to lie in the dusta1591 mischief1598 to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599 shipwreck1607 suffera1616 unravel1643 to fall off1684 tip (over) the perch1699 to do away with1769 to go to the dickens1833 collapse1838 to come (also go) a mucker1851 mucker1862 to go up1864 to go to squash1889 to go (to) stramash1910 to go for a burton1941 to meet one's Makera1978 1889 Froude Table-talk Shirley 205 It has all gone to squash. 5. a. College Football slang. = scrimmage n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scrum scrimmage1848 squash1857 loose scrummage1874 scrum1876 tight1904 loose ruck1906 set scrum1925 scrum-down1943 1857 Symonds Let. in H. F. Brown Life (1903) iii. 58 A squash is a large collection of boys, about twenty, with the football in the midst of them. 1867 Routledge's Handbk. Football 51 A disputed ‘touch-down’, in consequence of the ball having been carried in by a squash or otherwise. b. A crush or crowd of persons, etc.; a large number. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > large or numerous legiona1325 rout?c1335 multitudec1350 thrave1377 cloudc1384 schoola1450 meiniec1450 throng1538 ruckc1540 multitudine1547 swarm1548 regiment1575 armya1586 volley1595 pile1596 battalion1603 wood1608 host1613 armada1622 crowd1628 battalia1653 squadron1668 raffa1677 smytrie1786 raft1821 squash1884 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > densely packed together threatc950 press?c1225 thring?c1225 threngc1275 throngc1330 shockc1430 crowd1567 frequency1570 gregation1621 frequence1671 push1718 munga1728 mampus?c1730 squeezer1756 squeeze1779 crush1806 cram1810 parrock1811 mass1814 scrouge1839 squash1884 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 4 Young Lord Horsewhipborough is just passing as slowly as the modern squash compels one to progress. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. ii. 178 Your father made a will, Only there was not anything to will Except a squash of sermons. c. A social gathering; an informal religious or literary meeting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] companyc1300 assemblya1616 redoubt1698 assemblée1712 powwow1812 social1857 bear fight1861 corroboree1885 squash1904 1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. iii. xiv. 252 The intrinsic oddity of the London ‘squash’, a thing of vague, slow, senseless eddies. 1916 L. Einstein Let. 31 July in Holmes-Einstein Lett. (1964) ii. 134 The season, however, which I loathe, was rendered nicer by the war..no more fat squashes but agreeable dinners and luncheons. 1938 M. Whitlow J. Taylor Smith xi. 114 The Intervarsity Christian Fellowship have a ‘date’ with him for a series of ‘Squashes’ at Oxford and Cambridge. 1977 L. Gordon Eliot's Early Years iii. 47 In 1912, Conrad Aiken took ‘Prufrock’ to a ‘poetry squash’ in London and showed it to Harold Monro. 1979 PN Review 13 19/1 Lord, you know that next week is the Freshers' Squash. 6. a. Something which is squashed or crushed. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure squelch1837 squash1888 1888 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/2 It seemed churlish to pass him by without a sign, especially as he took off his squash of a hat to me. b. Biology. A preparation of softened tissue that has been made thin for microscopic examination by pressing or tapping. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > sample spread1895 smear1903 squash1942 sonicate1955 stabilate1965 1942 C. D. Darlington & L. F. La Cour Handling of Chromosomes v. 40 Sections have now been largely replaced by smears and squashes for all but the smallest masses of material. 1971 Nature 18 June 452/2 Fifty cells of three females and thirty-two cells of four males were examined. A testis squash was also made to give meiotic figures. 1981 Japanese Jrnl. Genetics 56 529 This method enables the observation of both C-banding patterns and the karyotypes by aceto-orcein squash technique in the same chromosome complement. 7. Short for lemon squash n. at lemon n.¹ Compounds 2. Also, a drink made from the juice of crushed fruit other than lemons; = crush n. 4e. Frequently as second element of combinations: see lime squash n. at lime n.² Compounds 2, orange squash n. at orange n.¹ and adj.¹ Compounds 2a(c). ΘΠ the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] cordial1861 squash1894 crush1919 the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > lemon juice or squash lemon-juice1617 lemon squash1876 squash1894 citron pressé1916 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 203 A smaller table held ices, squashes, and such. 1904 D. B. W. Sladen When we were Lovers in Japan ii. iv She..kept her mouth intently on the straw in her squash. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vii. 644 Will you have a squash and a biscuit? 1936 Discovery June 192/1 Fruit Squashes, containing the pulp of the fruit, were analogous to the well-known orange and lemon squashes. The blackcurrant squash was remarkable for its delicate flavour. 1939 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies (rev. ed.) x. 99 Jane suggested that they should..have a lemon-squash... Ernest did not want a squash. 1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 185 ‘Come on in and I'll make you a squash.’.. Meg squeezed a lemon for his drink. 1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 913 Most fruit squashes are unsuitable for babies. Compounds Thesaurus » Categories » squash bite n. Dentistry an impression of the teeth made by biting the jaws together on a piece of plastic material. 1914 N. G. Bennett Sci. & Pract. Dental Surg. xxxvii. 607/1 A ‘squash bite’ impression, or even one taken in the ordinary way in a tray, is very easily distorted in removing from the mouth. 1940 J. Osborne Dental Mech. v. 47 It is usual if this type of block is used to have taken a ‘squash bite’ at the impression stage. 1963 C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns, & Bridges ii. 10 The relationship of the prepared tooth to adjacent and opposing teeth must be recorded in the indirect technique with a wax or an alginate squash bite. Draft additions 1993 ˈsquasher n.² U.S. one who plays squash rackets, a squash player. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > player squasher1977 1977 Dun's Rev. Sept. 73/3 A squasher can belong to his Broad Street Club for $50 a year plus $8 per prime-time half hour. 1987 Christian Sci. Monitor 16 Nov. 18/4 Veteran squashers, however, teach more than how to win trophies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). squashn.² Brit. /skwɒʃ/, U.S. /skwɔʃ/, /skwɑʃ/ Forms: Also 1700s squosh. Etymology: Shortened < Narragansett asquutasquash < asq raw, uncooked. Compare squanter-squash n., quash n.¹ (The -ash is a plural ending, as in succotash.) 1. a. A gourd produced by one or other of various species of trailing herbaceous annual plants belonging to the genus Cucurbita or N.O. Cucurbitaceæ, esp. a fruit of the bush gourd, C. Melopepo. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash melon-pompion1577 simnel1640 squash1643 cushaw1698 simlin1775 squash-pumpkin1819 squash gourd1823 summer crookneck1832 melon pumpkin1840 bush gourd1842 crook-neck1844 Hubbard squash1868 mirliton1901 butternut pumpkin1916 buttercup1930 butternut1940 1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. 103 Askutasquash, their Vine aples, which the English from them call Squashes, about the bignesse of Apples, of severall colours, sweet, light, wholesome, refreshing. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 259 In a weighed quantity of digged earth..he set the seed of a squash. 1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 4) II. 174 Squashes are a small sort of Pumpkin lately brought into request. 1764 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (1765) 35 A dearth..caused them to fall upon their pompions, squoshes, &c. before they were ripe. 1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 10 It we strip off the coats from the large and flat seed of a Squash or Pumpkin, we find nothing but the embryo within. 1877 W. Matthews Ethnogr. Hidatsa 26 Squashes are cut in thin slices and dried; the dried squash is usually cooked by boiling. b. Used in singular with the, or without article. ΚΠ 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iv. §xxxii. 205 Dr. Russell tells us that the squash comes in towards the end of September, and continues all the year. 1878 W. Black Green Pastures xl Not at all desirous of eating at one and the same time boiled beans,..green corn, squash and sweet potatoes. 1902 Fortn. Rev. June 1007 The divine ‘sweet corn’, and ‘squash’, and ‘sweet potatoes’. 2. One or other species of Cucurbita producing the above fruit; the genus as a whole. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash > squash plants squash1661 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist ii. 107 A selected seed of..Squash, which is an Indian kind of Pompion, that Growes a pace. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Melopepo, The Squash. 1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 26 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Here is a native gourd or squash, which runs 20 foot up the trees. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 358/1 Cucurbita melopepo, the Squash, forms a bush about 3 ft. high. 1884 de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 252 The Cucurbitaceæ called squash by the Anglo-Americans. 3. With distinctive premodifiers: (see quots.). ΚΠ 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Melopepo The common or flat Squash... The large white Squash... The Citron-shap'd Squash... The warted Squash. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 137 It is exceedingly curious to behold the Wild Squash climbing over the lofty limbs of the trees. 1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. App. 284 Cucurbita..ovifera, (egg-squash). 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 96/1 C. verrucosa, club squash. 1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 142 C. melopepo... Flat Squash. 1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 142 C. ovifera... Egg Squash... C. verrucosa... Club Squash. 1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 60 Cucurbita melopepo..Round Squash. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 359/1 The Custard Marrow Squash, and the improved Custard Marrow or Bush Squash. 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1344/1 Summer Squash, Cucurbita Pepo. Winter Squash, Cucurbita maxima. Compounds C1. General attributive.Also, in recent American dictionaries, squash-beetle, squash-(vine) borer, squash flea-beetle, squash ladybird, and squash ladybug, as names of insects infesting squashes. squash bed n. ΚΠ 1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 39 The Cucumber and Squash tribe. squash pie n. ΚΠ 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 213/1 Cranberry sauce, and thick squash pies. squash seed n. ΚΠ 1708 S. Sewall Diary 15 Jan. (1973) I. 585 This day Mr. Belchar brings me Squash-Seeds from Dedham. squash shell n. ΚΠ 1725 S. Willard in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 238 They found 2 wigwarms;..they also found a paddle and some squash shells in one of them. squash soup n. ΚΠ 1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 62 We dined on Indian corn and squash soop, and boiled bread. squash vine n. ΚΠ 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 137 The Squash-vine is long and trailing. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 297 They will nearly get their living on insects without injuring the vegetables. Among squash vines they are indispensable. C2. squash-berry n. the red berry of Viburnum pauciflorum, a deciduous North American shrub; = mooseberry n. at moose n.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 ramble-berry1658 cloudberry1743 Indian pear1796 bluet1812 squawberry1829 pigface1830 wax-berry1835 quandong1836 strawberry guava1901 bead-berry1923 squash-berry1935 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries blueberry1594 hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 huckleberry1670 bearberry1677 cloudberry1743 baked apple1750 pembina1760 service1785 honeyberry1787 nub-berry1794 bluet1812 noop1817 squawberry1829 quandong1836 miro1838 strawberry guava1901 squash-berry1935 tayberry1977 tummelberry1984 1935 Lady Rockley Wild Flowers Great Dominions Brit. Empire 60 Its [sc. Viburnum pauciflorum's] berries known as the ‘Squash-berry’ are gathered and make an excellent preserve. 1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 32 He even shook his head at bakeapple jam, squashberry jelly and ‘meshberries’. 1974 J. E. Underhill Wild Berries Pacific Northwest 23 Huckleberries, Blueberries, Squash-berries, and many others, may be made into delicious jams. squash blossom n. the flower of the plant on which squashes grow, applied attributively to jewellery made by the Navajo which is characterized by designs (of Spanish, and ult. Moorish, derivation, representing pomegranates) resembling this flower. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] ringOE beec1009 languet1378 Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406 tablet?a1425 fetterlock1463 serpent-tongue1488 triangle1529 flory1530 gorget1570 medal1578 tablet jewel1599 sprig1602 bracelet1624 medallion1658 croisette1688 torques1693 scarabaeus1775 crosslet1802 torque1834 teardrop1870 scarab1878 scaraboid1879 scarabaeoid1887 squash blossom1923 clip1937 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [adjective] > specific shape or form mammillary1862 scaraboid1888 scarabaeoid1889 squash blossom1923 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [adjective] > of or relating to squash or pumpkin > of squash blossom squash blossom1923 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash > squash plants > blossom on squash blossom1923 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 19 The fig, the horseshoe, the squash-blossom. Symbols. 1930 D. Coolidge & M. R. Coolidge Navajo Indians xvi. 115 The beautiful squash-blossom pendants which the Hopis like so much. 1944 J. Adair Navajo & Pueblo Silversmiths v. 83 I watched Charie make other pieces. One of them was a squash-blossom bead. 1950 S. H. Babington Navajos, Gods & Tom-toms xv. 170 The pronged pieces in the beautiful so-called squash blossom necklace are the buttons which were sewed along the outside seams..of Spanish army officers' pants. 1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) ii. 10/2 Carol..had embellished it with her trademark jewelry: an authentic squash-blossom necklace. squash-bug n. one or other of various insects infesting or injurious to squashes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > injurious to squashes squash-bug1847 1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Squash-bug, the common name of a bug injurious to squashes. 1866 H. B. Stowe Little Foxes 124 In the actual garden there are..squash-bugs for all the melons. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table ix Dor-bugs and squash-bugs and such undesirable objects of affection to all but naturalists. squash gourd n. = squash-pumpkin n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash melon-pompion1577 simnel1640 squash1643 cushaw1698 simlin1775 squash-pumpkin1819 squash gourd1823 summer crookneck1832 melon pumpkin1840 bush gourd1842 crook-neck1844 Hubbard squash1868 mirliton1901 butternut pumpkin1916 buttercup1930 butternut1940 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. (at cited word) Squash-gourd, the Cucurbita melopepo of Linnæus. squash-pumpkin n. (also squash-melon pumpkin) the common bush gourd or squash, Cucurbita Melopepo. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash melon-pompion1577 simnel1640 squash1643 cushaw1698 simlin1775 squash-pumpkin1819 squash gourd1823 summer crookneck1832 melon pumpkin1840 bush gourd1842 crook-neck1844 Hubbard squash1868 mirliton1901 butternut pumpkin1916 buttercup1930 butternut1940 1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 391 With regard to these said quasheys (which, I believe, is their name,—first cousins to the squash pumpkin). 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 605 The Squash-melon pumpkin, or bush gourd. Draft additions August 2004 squash knife n. U.S. historical a thin, flat knife made from the scapula of a mammal, usually a buffalo, by North American Indians, esp. the Hidatsa, to slice squash and other soft vegetables. ΚΠ 1917 E. Goodbird in G. L. Wilson Agric. of Hidatsa Indians v. 71 Each of the old women had a squash knife in her hand, made of the thin part of the shoulder bone of a buffalo, if it was an old-fashioned one; butcher knives of steel are now used. 1931 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Nov. 10 The Indian of half a century ago was..economical of the buffalo he shot down... The shoulderblades were used in the manufacture of hoes and squash knives, spades and other tools. 1959 W. R. Wedel Introd. Kansas Archeol. 454 A thin flat subrectangular piece, measuring 28 by 65 mm., has been cut from the blade of a scapula digging tool. One long edge shows the thin beveling of the original tool blade; the other edges have been rounded and smoothed, beyond doubt purposely. The piece may have been a ‘squash knife’ or something for similar use. 1991 L. Bryan Buffalo People 175 If the Cluny inhabitants were immigrants from the farming villages on the Missouri, where were their squash knives, their scapula hoes and other digging implements? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † squashn.³ Etymology: Aphetic < musquash n. Obsolete. The musk-rat or musquash, Fiber zibethicus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Ondatra (musk-rat) water rat1481 rat1584 mussascus1612 muskrat1615 musquash1616 squash1678 Muscovy rat1693 musk beaver1771 Ondatra1774 rat-tailed shrew1827 mushrat1842 beaver-rat1884 musky1884 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Squash, a little Creature in some parts of America, somewhat resembling an Ichnumon or Indian Rat. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 59 The Squash is a four-footed Beast, bigger than a Cat. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 380 But the smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats, is fragrance itself when compared to that of the squash and the skink. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 201 Another stinkard, called the Squash, is said by Buffon to be found in some of the southern states. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 116 As..the Skink and squash, are treated by American Woodmen, who turn their backs upon the fetid Intruder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). squashv.¹ Brit. /skwɒʃ/, U.S. /skwɔʃ/, /skwɑʃ/ Etymology: < Old French esquasser (escasser ), esquacer (escacier ), = Italian squassare < popular Latin ex-quassāre : see quash v. In some senses, however, perhaps partly or mainly of imitative origin. 1. a. transitive. To squeeze, press, or crush into a flat mass or pulp; to beat to, or dash in, pieces, etc. Also with prepositions, as in, to. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > make broad in relation to thickness [verb (transitive)] > make thin and flat by pressure squata1300 to-squatc1325 quasha1387 squash1565 squeeze1601 squelch1625 squeegee1885 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng.* ii. x. f. 61 Ye must, I saye, teare them, rent them, and squasshe them to peeces. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 540 But the top of the gallery fell downe apon the boyes that were left, and squashed them all to death. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 289 The hennes..hide themselues from their males the cocks; for..they would squash their egs. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 277 Squashing and beating them vpon some stone,..shee made our cloathes reasonable white. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) ix. 58 Note, that in sowing the Berry 'tis good to squash and bruise them with fine siefted Mould. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 11 One of the Reapers..made me apprehend that..I should be squashed to Death under his Foot. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 58 In shuffling the cards,..squashing them together, breaking their edges [etc.]. 1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 186 There have indeed been..men who have piled such a load of books on their heads, their brains have seemed to be squasht by them. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 327 There were eight elephants killed that day, but three burst through everything,..squashing two men and a baby. figurative.1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times 24/1 More cleerly will we yet reueale their grosse absurditie, and..squash in pieces their unexcusable error.1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 60 Between crinolines and theories, some of us would get squashed. b. With adverbs, as down, up. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escraser, to squash downe, beat flat. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 105 A sort of wrought lime, which being squashed down upon the bridge..has a most terrible effect. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 320 I was not able to accompany my host, but had to be squashed up in the crowd. c. To quash; to suppress or put down; to undo or destroy in a complete or summary manner.Also, in recent colloquial use, to silence, discomfit, or repress (a person) in a very decisive or crushing way. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.) shendOE whelvec1000 allayOE ofdrunkenc1175 quenchc1175 quashc1275 stanchc1315 quella1325 slockena1340 drenchc1374 vanquishc1380 stuffa1387 daunt?a1400 adauntc1400 to put downa1425 overwhelmc1425 overwhelvec1450 quatc1450 slockc1485 suppressa1500 suffocate1526 quealc1530 to trample under foot1530 repress1532 quail1533 suppress1537 infringe1543 revocate1547 whelm1553 queasom1561 knetcha1564 squench1577 restinguish1579 to keep down1581 trample1583 repel1592 accable1602 crush1610 to wrestle down?1611 chokea1616 stranglea1616 stifle1621 smother1632 overpower1646 resuppress1654 strangulate1665 instranglea1670 to choke back, down, in, out1690 to nip or crush in the bud1746 spiflicate1749 squasha1777 to get under1799 burke1835 to stamp out1851 to trample down1853 quelch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 smash1865 garrotte1878 scotch1888 douse1916 to drive under1920 stomp1936 stultify1958 the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid wanea889 voida1340 avoidc1375 abolishc1475 disnull1509 disannula1513 annihilate1525 evacuate1526 aniente1528 extinct1530 disable1548 extinguish1548 solute1550 destitutea1563 exinanitea1575 cashier1596 devoid1601 shorta1616 supersede1618 vitiate1627 invalidate1649 out1653 vacate1662 exinanitiate1698 atheticize1701 squasha1777 invalid1827 negate1837 negative1837 unsanction1854 cancel- a1777 S. Foote Orators ii, in Dramatic Wks. (1788) II. 37 I therefore, humbly move to squash [earlier quash] this indictment. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xviii. 269 I, to squash my convictions, to stultify my book for the sake of popularity, money, patronage! 1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 258 The report spread that I had broken down completely, or, as a Johnian elegantly expressed it, was squashed. 1895 Law Times 98 280/2 The Pharmaceutical Society made a strenuous attempt to squash the Stores as vendors of drugs. †2. a. To press or squeeze out. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > twist, wring, or squeeze out twistc1374 press1381 expressc1400 outwringc1430 to wring upc1440 queasea1450 dow1481 strain1483 squash1599 crush1602 squeeze1602 squeeze1611 out-scruze1626 compel1657 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 59 Now squashing out their bellies soft and round. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 372 The battalions troden under foot and their guts squashed out. †b. To splash or dash (water) upon a person; to wet by splashing. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > on or upon a person squasha1602 a1602–3 Queen Elizabeth in I. H. Jeayes Cat. Charters Berkeley Castle (1892) 323 I somewhat still doute that ther hath bene to greate abundance of the same [sc. water] squasshed upon you. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Squash, v., to splash; to moisten by plentiful affusion. 3. intransitive. To emit or make a splashing sound; to move, walk, etc., in this way; to splash. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with splashing noise squash1671 splash1715 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > through a liquid wadec1220 swalter?a1400 paddle1530 dabble1611 squash1671 slush1853 sqush1929 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splash paskc1300 jaup1513 plash1650 squash1671 swattle1671 slumpa1677 splash1715 quash1739 pash1855 slush1883 sloosh1914 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. lv. 142 Ascites is when much Water is heaped up between the Peritoneum and the Bowels, so that when it is struck it doth squash as it were. 1839 T. Hood Ode to St. Swithin vii Why upon snow-white table-cloths and sheets..Come squashing? 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. ii. 4 Once more, the Dover mail struggled on, with the Jack-boots of its passengers squashing along by its side. 1893 Outing 22 139/1 Our feet ‘squashing’ as we step, for our boots are full of rain-water. 4. To be pressed into a flat mass on impact; to flatten out under pressure.Cf. Florio's use of squashing participial adjective (quot. 1611 at sense 1b below). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > become broad in relation to thickness [verb (intransitive)] > be flattened by pressure squash1858 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 121 Some other mixtures..sufficiently strong to resist all tendency to squash; as the softer metals would inevitably do. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 710/1 There must be the most skilful handling, lest the load ‘squash out’. Derivatives ˈsquasher n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Quasseur, a squasher, breaker. ˈsquashing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [adjective] > flattening by pressure squashing1598 squelching1885 the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure > flattening by pressure squattinga1400 squashing1598 squash1611 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squaccio, a squashing, a hauocke. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escrasement, a crushing flat, a squashing downe. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Squala,..a kind of soft squashing Hazle-nut. 1865 S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor ii A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). squashv.² Etymology: < squash n.¹ 5b. rare. intransitive. To frequent crowded assemblies. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > give or attend fashionable gatherings drum1825 squash1867 1867 J. L. Motley Let. 22 July. in Corr. (1889) II. viii. 269 How anything can be done in London but breakfast, lunch, dine, and squash, if one really goes in for ‘promiscuous Ned’, I can't comprehend. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). squashadv. Etymology: < squash v.¹ With or as with a squash. Frequently in to go squash (also transferred). ΚΠ 1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide iv. ii. 28 His Wig had the Luck a Cathartic to meet, And squash went the Gallipot under his Feet. 1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 246 He came down, in less than no time, squash on his nose, and broke it. 1886 G. Allen & M. Cotes Kalee's Shrine ii Some cottages may really go squash before long. 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