单词 | squish |
释义 | squishn. 1. University slang. Marmalade. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > marmalade marmalade1480 Dundee marmalade1833 squish1874 Oxford marmalade1905 lime-marmaladec1938 Oxford1964 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 307 Squish, common term among University men for marmalade. 1900 G. Swift Somerley 114 That finale of all college breakfasts and lunches, ‘squish’, otherwise known as marmalade. 2. A squishing sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > squelch squishing1647 squelching1709 squish-squash1821 slushing1864 squelch1895 squidge1897 squish1902 1902 J. C. Snaith Wayfarers xvi The only sound from the great darkness that covered the land was the squish of the water under our feet. 3. Nonsense, ‘rubbish, ‘rot’, ‘bilge’. slang. ΚΠ 1912 L. A. Harker Mr. Wycherley's Wards ix Fearful squish: you don't mean to say you really like it. 1912 L. A. Harker Mr. Wycherley's Wards ix If you..had as few books as me, and loved them every one dearly, and then someone..called them ‘rot’..and ‘squish’, you wouldn't like it. 4. Engineering. In some internal-combustion engines, the forced radial flow of mixture from the cylinder into the combustion chamber as the piston approaches the cylinder head at the end of a stroke. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > fuel or air mixture stratified charge1886 compression1887 stratification1914 swirl1926 secondary air1931 squish1934 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > fuel or air mixture rich1882 stratified charge1886 supercharged1910 weak1918 swirl1926 blown1934 squish1957 unblown1959 1934 Proc. Inst. Mech. Engineers 128 155 Satisfactory mixing was brought about largely by the ‘squish’. 1953 Proc. Inst. Mech. Engineers: Automobile Division 1951–2 103/2 Since squish occurs late in the compression stroke, it is not likely to affect maximum-power spark timing. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 505/1 The squish turbulence..feeds most of the charge that would otherwise have been last to burn into the flame front. 1979 R. H. Warring Know Your Model Aero Engines xii. 72 With a squish head, the outer section of the head is flat, with a smaller hemispherical combustion chamber in the middle. Draft additions 1993 Linguistics. A continuum or linear progression held to exist between categories (esp. parts of speech) normally considered discrete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > [noun] > continuum between parts of speech squish1972 1972 J. R. Ross in Proc. 8th Regional Meeting Chicago Linguistic Soc. 317 To show that a squish exists, I will cite a number of grammatical processes which work most for verbs, less for adjectives, and least for nouns. 1976 Language 52 392 We have a gradience or squish depending on two hierarchies. 1988 Amer. Speech 63 342 Some hitherto common count nouns will move into the title category, or at least further towards the titleness end of the squish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). squishv. 1. transitive. To squeeze, to squash. Now dialect and colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] thrutchc888 distrainc1381 thrust1382 pressc1390 compressc1400 thresta1425 bruisec1465 thrumble1513 squize1548 squiss1558 scruze1590 squeeze1601 vice1602 squish1647 birzea1774 squeege1787 appress1789 squidge1881 punch1903 mash1930 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. To Squise or squish, wrijven. 1976 D. Heffron Crusty Crossed ix. 69 We squished our teeth into the berries in our mouths to stop giggling. 1977 G. Durrell Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons v. 129 He [sc. an octopus] had wedged himself, or rather squished himself, into a small crevice. 2. a. intransitive. Of water, soft mud, etc.: To give out a peculiar gushing or splashing sound when walked in or on; to gush up, squirt out, with such a sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > squelch chorkc1440 squisha1825 squelch1834 squish-squash1836 quelch1866 sqush1929 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) The water squishes under our feet in the grass, if it be walked on too soon after rain. 1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother iii She had made but few steps before the water squished under her feet. 1892 ‘Q’ I saw Three Ships 35 The water in her shoes squishing at every step. b. Of a person, etc.: to proceed or make one's way with a squishing sound. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > with specific noise squatter1786 clatter1810 creak1834 crunch1853 craunch1857 chuff1899 squish1952 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > squelch > move with squelching squelch1849 slush1853 squish1952 1952 Sun (Baltimore) 9 July 30/4 (caption) Soaked to the point of not caring, this waterlogged pedestrian squishes his way across a downtown street. 1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) iii. 40 We squished down a rutted lane. 1965 F. Knebel Night of Camp David ii. 50 Tires squishing through the slush and spraying muddy water from little pools at the edge of the pavement. 1978 Chicago June 72/2 The highlight of Day is to squish around in the foam spread in a contained area by the Village Fire Department. Derivatives ˈsquishing n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [noun] distressc1384 press?1440 presseragec1450 thresting1481 thringing1483 thrust1513 squass1528 pressionc1540 squizing1565 pressure1601 squeezing1611 squishing1647 contrusiona1691 coercion1830 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > squelch squishing1647 squelching1709 squish-squash1821 slushing1864 squelch1895 squidge1897 squish1902 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A squising or squishing together. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A squising or squishing out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1874v.1647 |
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