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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English squachen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”).
Noun[edit]
squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes)
- (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “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.
- (Britain) 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.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
- (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
- (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- Orr, James (18 August 2014), “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to John Cena vs Brock Lesnar”, in (Please provide the title of the work)[2], The Independent, retrieved 30 July 2015
- 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 title of the work)[2], The Independent, retrieved 30 July 2015
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:squash.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
The sport
soft drink — see cordial
See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)
- (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- (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.
- (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
- 2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, →ISBN, page 390:
- A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:squash.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to beat or press into pulp or flat mass
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to compress
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Etymology 2[edit]
Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) + asquash (“eaten”).[1]
Noun[edit]
squash (countable and uncountable, plural squash or squashes)
- (botany, countable) 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.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma subsp. argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- We ate squash and green beans.
Derived terms[edit]
- squash beetle (Epilachna borealis)
- squash bug (Coreidae)
- opo squash (Lagenaria spp.)
- winter squash
- summer squash
Hyponyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita
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Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
squash (plural squashes)
Further reading[edit]
References[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
squash
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of squash (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | squash | squashit | |
| genitive | squashin | squashien | |
| partitive | squashia | squasheja | |
| illative | squashiin | squasheihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | squash | squashit | |
| accusative | nom. | squash | squashit |
| gen. | squashin | ||
| genitive | squashin | squashien | |
| partitive | squashia | squasheja | |
| inessive | squashissa | squasheissa | |
| elative | squashista | squasheista | |
| illative | squashiin | squasheihin | |
| adessive | squashilla | squasheilla | |
| ablative | squashilta | squasheilta | |
| allative | squashille | squasheille | |
| essive | squashina | squasheina | |
| translative | squashiksi | squasheiksi | |
| instructive | — | squashein | |
| abessive | squashitta | squasheitta | |
| comitative | — | squasheineen | |
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
squash m (plural squashs)
- (sports) (uncountable) squash
- Jouer au squash.
- squash game
- On s'est fait deux squashs aujourd'hui.
- squash court
- La ville a construit trois squashs municipaux.
References[edit]
- “squash” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading[edit]
- “squash” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
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Noun[edit]
squash m
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of squash
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
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Noun[edit]
squash m
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of squash
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
squash m (uncountable)
- squash (sport)
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