Citations:squash

English citations of squash

Noun Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas

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• c. 1601- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act 1 Scene 5

  Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod.

Noun Something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt

• William Shakespeare - This squash, this gentleman.

Noun A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies

• 1726- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels Part II/Chapter VIII
• My fall was stopped by a terrible squash that sounded louder to my ears than Niagara Falls.

Verb

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• 2005- William Jackson, And the Sea Shall Hide Them, p. 166

  She fell forward several times into the dark ooze, her elbows and breasts squashing into the pungent muck.