squash

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /skwɒʃ/
• (US) IPA: /skwɑʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Etymology 1

Noun

Wikipedia squash (countable and uncountable; plural squashes)

1. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/19/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days^[1]:

     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.

2. (UK) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.

   When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.

3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

   It's a bit of a squash in this small room.

4. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
5. (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
6. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

• squashable
• squash ball
• squash court
• squash player
• squash racket

Translations

The sport

• Catalan: esquaix (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壁球 (cmn) (bìqiú)

• Dutch: squash (nl) n
• Finnish: squash (fi), kössi (fi)
• French: squash (fr) m
• German: Squash (de) n
• Japanese: スカッシュ (ja) (sukasshu)

• Korean: 스쿼시 (ko) (seukwosi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سکواش

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: squash (nb) m, skvåsj (nb) m

  Nynorsk: squash (nn) m, skvåsj (nn) m

• Russian: сквош (ru) (skvoš) m
• Swedish: squash (sv) c

soft drink — see cordial

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ayote

See also

• racketball

Verb

squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)

1. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
2. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

• squash up
• squashy
• squish

Translations

to beat or press into pulp or flat mass

• Finnish: murskata (fi), puristaa (fi), soseuttaa (fi)
• Hungarian: szétlapít (hu)
• Russian: раздавливать (ru) (razdávlivatʹ) impf., раздавить (ru) (razdavítʹ) pf., расплющивать (ru) (raspljúščivatʹ) impf., расплющить (ru) (raspljúščitʹ) pf., сжимать (ru) (sžimátʹ) impf., сжать (ru) (sžatʹ) pf.

• Spanish: aplastamiento (es) m, aplastar (es)

to compress

• Dutch: samenpersen (nl)
• Finnish: ahtaa (fi), ahtautua
• French: presser (fr)
• Hungarian: összenyom (hu), összeprésel (hu)

• Russian: сдавливать (ru) (sdávlivatʹ) impf., сдавить (ru) (sdavítʹ) pf., сжимать (ru) (sžimátʹ) impf., сжать (ru) (sžatʹ) pf.
• Spanish: aplastamiento (es) m, aplastar (es)
• ǃXóõ: tʻkxʻām

Etymology 2

Shortening of squantersquash, from a Narragansett word.

Wikispecies

Noun

squash (uncountable)

1. (countable, botany) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
2. The edible fruit of this plant, or this fruit prepared as a dish.

   We ate squash and green beans.

Usage notes

• The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are not clear.

Derived terms

• squash beetle
• squash bug

Translations

plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (pumpkin) 南瓜 (cmn) (nánguā)

• Finnish: kurpitsa (fi)
• French: courge (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: (pumpkin) Kürbis (de) m
• Hindi: स्क्वाश (hi) (skvāś)
• Hungarian: tök (hu)
• Japanese: (pumpkin) 南瓜 (ja) (かぼちゃ, kabocha)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کودی

• Narragansett: askutasquash
• Navajo: naayízí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: squash (nb) m, skvåsj (nb) m

  Nynorsk: squash (nn) m, skvåsj (nn) m

• Polish: dynia (pl) f
• Russian: кабачок (ru) (kabačók) m, (pumpkin) тыква (ru) (týkva) f
• Spanish: zapallo (es) m
• Swedish: squash (sv) c, zucchini (sv) c, courgette (sv) c

Etymology 3

shortening of musquash

Noun

squash (plural squashes)

1. (obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.
   • Dampier

     The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowing from English squash

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skwaʃ/

Noun

squash m (plural squashs)

1. (sports) (uncountable) squash

   Jouer au squash.

2. squash game

   On s'est fait deux squashs aujourd'hui.

3. squash court

   La ville a construit trois squashs municipaux.

References

• "squash" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from English squash

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skʋɔʂ/, X-SAMPA: /skPOs`/
• Rhymes: -ɔʂ

Alternative forms

• skvåsj

Noun

squash m

1. squash (fruit)
2. squash (sport)
3. squash (soft drink)

Inflection

    Inflection of squash

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	squash	squashen	squasher	squashene

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from English squash

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skʋɔʂ/, X-SAMPA: /skPOs`/
• Rhymes: -ɔʂ

Alternative forms

• skvåsj

Noun

squash m

1. squash (fruit)
2. squash (sport)
3. squash (soft drink)

Inflection

    Inflection of squash

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Nynorsk m	squash	squashen	squashar	squashane