squdge

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English

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Etymology

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Imitative.

Noun

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squdge (plural squdges)

  1. A wet, squashy sound.
    • 1940, C. Daly King, Bermuda Burial, page 195:
      Now there were two objects, ricocheting off a rocky headland, occasionally bumping each other with a squdge inaudible above the sloshing water.
    • 1927, Olde Penn, volume 26, number 4, page 88:
      Students plodded bravely on, unmindful of the cold rain water that made a "squdge" in the soaked shoes every time a step was taken.
    • 1911, Lieut. Howard Payson [John Henry Goldfrap], The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship (The Boy Scouts; 3), New York: A. L. Burt Company, page 29:
      Rob's harpoon whistled through the air and sank, with a “squdge,” into the side of the bobbing, evasive target.
  2. A wet, squashy mess.
    • 1927, John Lofland, Doomsday Cult, page 11:
      What on earth did they do with themselves in those little transitory houses on their quarter-acre plots, without a decent tree on the estate, and the very road a squdge of clay and clinker?

Verb

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squdge (third-person singular simple present squdges, present participle squdging, simple past and past participle squdged)

  1. To move in a wet, squashing manner; to squish.