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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

smushy en · ADJ

Etymology

From smush + -y.

Meanings

  1. Inclined to smush; squishy, wetly soft.
    • I found a half-full plastic milk jug with no lid and not one single lemon. There was a carton of smushy, oozing cherry tomatoes[…] 2007, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Preston McDaniels, Phineas L. MacGuire... Gets Slimed!: The Second Experiment:
    • Nasty little green things that look like lice will probably appear — beastly, soft, smushy aphids they are. 1910, Grace Tabor, Gardner Callahan Teall, The Garden Primer:

Forms

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smushier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
smushiest Degree=Sup lexicographic