squishy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From squish + -y.
Meanings
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(literally, of a physical material) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
The toy was soft and squishy, making it fun to squeeze.
I love how squishy the pillow is—it’s so comfortable to sleep on.
Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).
2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How:The mud was squishy underfoot after the rainstorm.
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(especially, literally, of a physical material) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft. ▸ Soft and wet.
Finished with head and hair, the women pulled her up the bank to wash her body, the soft squishy mud registering for the first time on the outer consciousness of Isabelle’s mind.
2009, Jamie Carie, Wind Dancer, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 144:
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(figuratively) Subjective or vague.
How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.
April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
- (colloquial, derogatory, figuratively) Politically moderate.
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(figuratively) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.
Yeah, I’m, like, freaking tissue paper here. Come get the mage, everyone. Pick on the poor squishy mage!
2006, Marianne Mancusi, Stake That!, page 28:Telling your healers how well they kept people alive when a battle was difficult is important; or, what a great job your thief did in disarming the traps to get to the raid; clapping your warriors on their backs for maintaining aggro (i.e., keeping the monster targeting them rather than “squishy” mages) or applauding the sorcerers who unloaded incredible amounts of damage.
2008, Jeon Rezvani, Guild Leadership: Lessons from the Virtual World, page 111:What this tells us is that, against PCs equipped to confront a drow shadowblade, a single round's Multiattack is unlikely to deliver a one-hit kill – not unless the target is a squishy wizard or sorcerer.
2022, Keith Ammann, MOAR!: Monsters Know What They're Doing, page 89:
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Making a squish sound.
Those darling, squishy little footsteps...Is that you, Punio?
2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Boggly Woods:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| squishie | alternative, noun | lexicographic | |
| squishier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| squishiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
Translations (28)
fr visqueux ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · pt macio ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · de pratschig ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · cs měkký ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · ru пода́тливый ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · de weichlich ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · fi lötkö ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · mi tāromiromi ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · cs blátivý ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · cs naměklý ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · fi veltto ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · fr mou ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · de nachgebend ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · mi tāhōhō ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · de matschig ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · es fungoso ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · pt mole ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · es blando ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · hi गुदगुदा ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · de schwabbelig ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · fi löysä ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · sv geggig ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · fi vetelä ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · de watschig ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · es hongoso ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · cmn 濕軟 /湿软 ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · fr spongieux ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud) · hi पिलपिला ((of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud)