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Squashy   /skwˈɑʃi/   Listen
Squashy

adjective
1.
Like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness.  Synonym: pulpy.
2.
(of soil) soft and watery.  Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged.  "A marshy coastline" , "Miry roads" , "Wet mucky lowland" , "Muddy barnyard" , "Quaggy terrain" , "The sloughy edge of the pond" , "Swampy bayous"
3.
Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility.  Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squishy.






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"Squashy" Quotes from Famous Books



... him laugh. Mother from her sofa joined in. I was doubled up like a jack-knife in the corner. But as for the principals in the affair, neither of their faces moved a muscle. They saw no joke. Aunt Anniky, in a dreadful, muffled, squashy sort of voice, took ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... Agricultur'l Hall!" he said, mopping his brow—"'tisn't in it with us. The approach to the bridge must now be paved with hurdles, owin' to the squashy nature o' the country. Yes, an' we'd better have one or two on the far side to lead her on to terror fermior. Now, Hinch! Give her full steam and 'op along. If she slips off, we're done. Shall I ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... coming. Anybody can see you coming, Daddy. That's why you ought to be so careful. I shall make you wear a hard hat. Those squashy hats of ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... a squab," growled Portlaw, swallowing vast quantities of claret, "all squashy and full of pin-feathers. That's what hope is. It needs a thorough roasting, and it's ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... Staffordshire patriarch, who leaned on a stick and held his head very much on one side, with the air of a man who had little hope of the present generation, but would at all events give it the benefit of his criticism. 'Th' yoong men noo-a-deys, the're poor squashy things—the' looke well anoof, but the' woon't wear, the' woon't wear. Theer's ne'er un'll carry his 'ears like that ...
— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot



Words linked to "Squashy" :   soft, wet, nonwoody



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