From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
Meanings
(obsolete) The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
1883, May 5 […] The words had only left his mouth when his feet slipped from under him, and with a dull, sickening thud, he went squash! into the water, waist-deep. We made our way to bed in a silence that was painful. 2001, Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Struggle for Apacheria. volume one, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 355:
[…] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step, I went squash! squash! up to the tops of my boots, and many times very extent, stretching to the eastward, […] 1848, The Lotus, page 40:
[…] to catch all the rain […]; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road, […] 1881, Frederick Lancelot H. Morrice, The Nightless North: A Walk Across Lapland, page 74:
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
Meanings
(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman. 2007, James Zug, Squash: A History of the Game, Scribner, →ISBN, page 1:
She plays squash every Saturday.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall. 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
(countable, uncountable) A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here. 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
(countable, uncountable) A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
(countable, uncountable) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
(countable, obsolete) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
(countable, derogatory, obsolete) Something unripe or soft.
(countable, obsolete) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
(countable, slang, uncountable) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent. Orr, James (18 August 2014), “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to John Cena vs Brock Lesnar”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Independent, retrieved 30 Jul 2015
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From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
Meanings
(transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
(intransitive, transitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
(transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion. 2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, →ISBN, page 390:
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Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) + asquash (“eaten”).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. ▸ Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
(countable, uncountable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. ▸ Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
(countable, uncountable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. ▸ Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
(countable, uncountable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. ▸ Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
(countable, uncountable) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
(countable, uncountable) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera. ▸ Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
(countable, uncountable) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
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