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Definition of Squashy
1. Adjective. Like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness.
2. Adjective. (of soil) soft and watery. "Swampy bayous"
Similar to: Wet
Derivative terms: Bog, Marsh, Mire, Mud, Muddiness, Quag, Slop, Sloppiness, Slough, Sogginess, Swamp
3. Adjective. Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility. "Spongy bread"
Similar to: Soft
Derivative terms: Sponge, Sponginess, Sponginess
Definition of Squashy
1. a. Easily squashed; soft.
Definition of Squashy
1. Adjective. Easily squashed when pressed ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a bog or marsh underfoot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squashy
1. soft and moist [adj SQUASHIER, SQUASHIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squashy
Literary usage of Squashy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
"OF SCRUNCHY DAYS AND squashy DAYS. HOW PEOPLE TALK. WAS CHARLES PERHAPS UNFAIR,
AFTER ALL? CHARLES was looking no doubt very miserable and depressed when he ..."
2. Flower Poems by John Clare (2001)
"Swamps of wild rush beds and slough's squashy traces, Grounds of rough fallows
wi' thistle and weed, Flats and low valleys of ..."
3. Episodes by George Slythe Street (1895)
"His father was a rich brewer, whose hopes were centred in squashy, and who gave him
... A very small boy ran into him; squashy kicked the very small ..."
4. The Cheshire Sheaf ...: Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian by Francis Sanders, William Fergusson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1880)
"squashy. Soft, unripe, immature. It is sometimes said of young, ... A young and
rather foolish person is also sometimes said to be but squashy. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"It is sometimes said of young, unripe potatoes, "they eat'n squashy." (2) also
used metaphorically in describing young and foolish persons. Mow COP. ..."
6. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"... you know, juicy and cut very thick, and jess squashy with gravy and ...
the last sentence—"jess squashy with gravy and ..."
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