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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



... fat, Sleek little darlings! We gave them tit for tat, Snarlings for snarlings! Squashy pomposities, Shocked at our violence, Let not one tactful hiss Break ...
— Young Adventure - A Book of Poems • Stephen Vincent Benet

... Greenfield cried querulously. "Where's anything bigger, more than what we've done? And to have it end like this—to have a bug—a miserable, squashy bug beat you ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson

... himself hoarse, and we forged ahead. We crashed under the mulberry tree, which swept us from stem to stern, nearly carrying the hen-coop overboard; while Jane and I lay flat under a perfect hail of squashy black fruit which covered the ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

... brought her a glass of sherry and a bite of something squashy; a number of people spoke to him and asked to be presented to Valerie. Her poise, her unconsciousness, the winning simplicity of her manner were noticed everywhere, and everywhere commented on. People ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers

... me indicated plainly a suspended judgment, inclined perhaps towards the favourable. I was shown my room, a little long back room, with ragged wall-paper, and almost filled up by a huge, very flat, squashy bed. After a wash-over (I did not ask for a bath for fear of exposing the lack of one) I went down ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds



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



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