Citations:squash
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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
[edit]- William Shakespeare - This squash, this gentleman.
Noun A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies
[edit]- 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.