squish-squashadv.n.v.
A. adv.
With the splashing or squashing sound made in walking through water or soft mud.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adverb] > squelch
squish-squash1789
1789 C. Smith Ethelinde I. iii. 43 I thof of all things we should have been killed..; and then squish squash through such a deal of water!
1792 Elvina I. 150 Now we may go squish squash in the dark.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.)
B. n.
The sound made in this way. Also attributive.
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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
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 23 He heard a squish-squash sound, As when one's shoes the drenching waters fill.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Squish-squash is a term used to express the noise made by the feet in walking over a loose, swampy, piece of ground.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.)
C. v.
= squish v. 2.
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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
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1839) 1st Ser. xxiii. 86 There he stands, all shiverin and shakin, and the water a squish~squashin in his shoes.
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