Crossword clues for squishy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, from squish + -y (2). Related: Squishily; squishiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of an object or substance English) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; ''especially'', soft and wet, ''as'' mud. 2 (context figuratively of a person English) (non-gloss definition: Used as a term of endearment.) 3 (context informal English) subjective or vague.
WordNet
adj. resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread" [syn: spongy, squashy, spongelike]
Usage examples of "squishy".
A sort of twisty, melty, squishy feeling that made her want to swoon like a heroine in one of those ridiculous romance novels.
Shudders rolled through her, and she suffered a sort of squinny fit, her body twitching and jerking with disgust as she began frantically wiping first one hand, then the other, on the ground and surrounding branches and leaves in an effort to remove the squishy substance.
Teddy Tumtum demanded, button eyes fairly bugging out of his squishy fabric skull.
Like a boy playing in water, he repeated the experiment time and again, shoving the dollops of heavy magic onto the floor where they landed with squishy plops.
He duked the headwaiter five pounds and got the best table in the place, with squishy red leather banquettes to sit on and real English roses to look at beneath the painted Edwardian ceiling.
The rainstorm that had soaked us two days before at Beersheba had passed across the Allan Valley, and the fields were squishy marshlands.
Jerry knew what a gel-foam cushion was only because it was a squishy bed covering he'd figured might have real erotic possibilities.
The ground had a moist, squishy feel under his feet, as if it never entirely dried out, but the dew on the grass had burned off and it was beginning to be hot and humid.
And of course there was Saunders and Gordon back of the Tottenham Court Road with its big squishy sofas and help-yourself bar stacked with pain au chocolat and Danish pastries, loads of different teas and coffee, all the mags and the day's newspapers.
He was aware of no distractions except the great night moths that blundered into him with their squishy bodies and the peepers that raised their hymns from the grass roots.
That’s the squishy stuff corporations use to ooze around US law which, you may be surprised to learn, prohibits any donations to presidential campaigns in the general election.
He stares up at the ceiling, which is fraught with safety equipment whose LEDs form a glowering red constellation, a crouching figure known to the ancient Greeks as Ganymede, the Anally Receptive Cup bearer, and to the Nipponese, as Hideo, the Plucky Disaster Relief Worker, bending over to probe a pile of jagged concrete slabs for anything that's squishy.
Hopping on his squishy right running shoe, he removed the sock, tossed it to the ground, and started on the other shoe.
It’s always struck him how the toughest and most bitchy girls had the schmaltziest, squishiest doodads in their bedrooms.
The second one was a red potato soup sandwich, somewhat squishy but with excellent taste.