Crossword clues for squish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
squish \squish\ (skw[i^]sh), v. i. [Perh. imitative. Cf. Squelch.] To make the sound of squirting water, like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; to make a kind of gushing, swashing, or splashing sound; to move with such a sound.
squish \squish\ (skw[i^]sh), n. A sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; a gushing, swashing, or splashing sound; a squishing sound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, probably a variant of squash (v.), perhaps by influence of obsolete squiss "to squeeze or crush" (1550s). Related: Squished; squishing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed. 2 (context politics informal derogatory English) A political moderate (term used by conservative activists in the 1980s). vb. To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Squish may refer to:
- Squish (FidoNet), a mail tossing application and mail storage format.
- Ogg Squish, an audio data compression|audio compression codec.
- Squish, a minor alien character in the Lexx television series
- Squish (piston engine), an effect in internal combustion engines, creating additional turbulence as the piston reaches top-dead centre.
- Squish (Froglogic), a commercial computer program to test graphical user interfaces.
Squish is both the name of a FidoNet mail tossing application originally designed for DOS and OS/2, and the name of the primary mail storage format in which this application stores FidoNet and other local BBS messages. Before Squish, open storage formats for FidoNet and Bulletin Board messages were relatively slow and inefficient. The primary functions of the Squish application in a FidoNet system are to:
- Unpack incoming mail archives.
- Examine and sort incoming mail, and either:
- Store it in the appropriate local message bases for later reading by a BBS user or a FidoNet mail reading application.
- Place it into an outgoing mail archive, if addressed to another system.
- Examine mail being sent from a FidoNet system, and attach routing information to each message.
- Archive outgoing messages appropriately, for archives to be later transferred by independent FidoNet mailer software.
Squish was originally developed by Scott J. Dudley through his company, Lanius Corporation, in conjunction with his Maximus BBS software. Squish existed as a separate application, however, and its open specifications resulted in it often being used within other FidoNet and BBS-related systems.
In 2002, the source code for Squish was released under the GNU General Public License, in the same code-base as the Maximus BBS software. It has since been ported to run under Win32, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
Squish is a commercial cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool that can test applications based on a variety of GUI technologies (see list below). It is developed and maintained by Froglogic.
Squish is an effect in internal combustion engines which creates sudden turbulence of the fuel/air mixture as the piston approaches top dead centre (TDC).
In an engine designed to use the squish effect, at top dead centre (TDC) the piston crown comes very close, (typically less than 1mm), to the cylinder head. The gases are suddenly "squished" out within the combustion chamber, creating turbulence which promotes thorough fuel/air mixing, a factor beneficial to efficient combustion. Squish effect may be found in ohv and ohc engines, including engines with a Heron cylinder head.
Usage examples of "squish".
Her creamy mounds were squished against the table, but soon they would be branding his chest.
And Pattoo showed JL a piece of squished fruit she must have gotten hold of just that moment to help me.
Dark lichenous plants felt almost rubbery beneath her palm, and dozens of mushworms--green sluglike creatures that squished into a syrup under the slightest pressure--fed upon the plants.
Despite the multilayered soundscape of the jungle that surrounded Quinn, he heard their every squishing step as they trudged across the muddy dirt road and passed out of sight on the far side of the barracks.
She was certain she could already feel a nascent corn on her baby toe, which was being squished hideously into the triangular toepiece of the shoes.
Once past the canine welcoming committee, she stepped from the tunnel into the wide corridor of the second level, squishing her way through the odiferous floor covering, past what had once been sumptuous bedrooms, and still showed rags of velvet bedhangings and drapes at blank, earth-filled windows.
Chrissie know that the culvert was about to collapse and fill with earth, squishing her as if she were a bug and trapping her forever.
Wet shoes squishing and squeaking on the linoleum, she was past him before he realized she actually was going to his left.
The crevice she'd squished herself into was no more than a shallow vertical chink in the rocky drop where a rectangular piece of argillite had fallen away.
What a wonderful, loving, stupid man, I thought to myself, and firmly squished down every last bit of love I felt for him lest Asmodeus detect it and know I was bluffing my way out of the house.
The sperm squished over toward Bill, a dripping frown on its liquid face.
He squished down hard and the grinning man yelped and dropped to his knees and began to beg Alvin to give him back his hand.
Another was a Squeeze program that -- no, don't get ahead of me, Ms DOS isn't that friendly -- enables you to squish files down to about half size for more efficient storage, and to unsqueeze at need.
They and other members of the 'loyal opposition' would just as soon throw a punch or an insult as they would squish a fig.
He averted his eyes and dipped into the mind of the nearest:mincing pansy looka that hair dye job fershure thinks he's inna marching band like to beat his fuckin' drums but no wait shit there's better we'U find us a good one tonight yeah wanna get one that squishes when we hit it.