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单词 squish
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squishn.

Brit. /skwɪʃ/, U.S. /skwɪʃ/
Etymology: < squish v.
1. University slang. Marmalade.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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Linguistics. A continuum or linear progression held to exist between categories (esp. parts of speech) normally considered discrete.
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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.

Brit. /skwɪʃ/, U.S. /skwɪʃ/
Etymology: Imitative: compare squish-squash adv., n., and v. In sense 1 perhaps a modified form of squiss v. or squize v.
1. transitive. To squeeze, to squash. Now dialect and colloquial.
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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.
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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)] > 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.
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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.
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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).
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