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Definition: Squashy |
SquashyAdjective1. Resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "squashy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Synonyms: SquashySynonyms: spongelike (adj), spongy (adj), squishy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Marsh | Adjective: marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Squashy |
| English words defined with "squashy": Squashiness. (references) |
| "Squashy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Squashy" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
squashy | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "squashy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lagësht (damp, dank, humid, moist, sloppy, sour, steamy, wet), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | موحل (clayey, foul, mucky, muddy, murky, puddly, slimy, sloughy, slushy), ناعم (cosiness, delicate, downy, fine, gentle, glace, mellow, neat, on velvet, powdery, silken, silky, smooth, soft, springy, tender, velvet, velvety), سهل سحقه, سبخ (marshy, paludal, watery), طيني (argillaceous, clayey, muddy, oozy, slimy, sludgy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кашав (mushy, pulpy), мочурлив (boggy, marshy, paludal, plashy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy), много мек, презрял (overmature, overripe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozmìklý (soft, soppy), mìkký (balmy, fresh, gentle, mellow, mild, silky, soft, tender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کدوءی , له شونده , بسهولت خردوله شونده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui s'écrase facilement, moelleux, bourbeux, boueux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | weich (crumby, limp, malleable, mellow, pillowy, smooth, smoothly, soft, soft boiled, soft-hearted, softly, spongy, springy, tender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαλακόσ (compliant, crumby, malleable, meek, mellow, mild, quaggy, smooth, soft, softy, subdued, unctuous, waxen), πλαδαρόσ (flabby, loose, pulpy), χυμώδησ (chymous, juicy, luscious, sappy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעיך (squeezable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pépes (masher, Pappy, pasty, pulpy, squishy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | morbido (downy, silky, smooth, soft, tender), molle (crummy, feeble, flabby, lax, soft, tender, tongs, weak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bog-vroojit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ashysquay mole (boneless, flaccid, floppy, limp, loppy, molluscous, mushy, pappy, pithless, pulpy, sleepy, sluggish, soapy, soft, spineless, spiritless, supine, tender, weak), lamacento (miry, muddy, mushy, oozy, poachy, puddly, quaggy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy), úmido (clammy, damp, dewy, dripping, humid, juicy, madid, moist, soft, tops, watery, weeping, wet). (various references) мягкий (balmy, bland, cottony, cushiony, downy, facile, fair-spoken, genial, gentle, green, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, mild, mild-mannered, mushy, non-rigid, open, pillowy, pulpy, rich, round, silken, soft, squidgy, yielding). (various references) koji može da se gnječi, kašast (mushy, pappy). (various references) muelle y húmedo, blanco y algo líquido. (various references) mjuk (gentle, limp, Pappy, pillowy, pulpy, smooth, soft, tender, yielding). (various references) เหลวและเปียก, ซึ่งบ"ไ"้ง่าย. (various references) м'ясистий (fleshy, meaty, succulent), багнистий (miry, oozy, queachy, spongy). (various references) mềm nhão dễ ép, dễ nén; dễ vắt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Squashy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Quashie, squach, squalsh, squeash, squeesh, squesh, sqush, squush. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "squashy" (pronounced skwÄ"shē) |
| 4 | -w Ä" sh ē | washy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-q-s-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: squash. | |
-2 letters: hussy, quash, quass, quays, shays. | |
-3 letters: ashy, hays, quay, sash, says, shay, suqs. | |
-4 letters: ash, ass, ays, has, hay, qua, sau, say, sha, shy, suq, yah. | |
-5 letters: ah, as, ay, ha, sh, uh, us, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-q-s-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: squashily. | |
+3 letters: squarishly. | |
+4 letters: squeamishly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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