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squeezable, a.|ˈskwiːzəb(ə)l|
[f. squeeze v.]
1. Capable of being compressed or squeezed. Also transf.
1813Sir W. W. Pepys in Roberts Mem. Han. More (1835) III. 398 One would like to keep it in squeezable order. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1043 They must feel moist and clammy, and be squeezable in the hand.
b. Impressionable; susceptible.
1852Savage R. Medlicott I. i. v. 130 You are too versatile and too squeezable,..you take impressions too readily.
2. Capable of being constrained or coerced to yield or grant something.
1837Ann. Reg., Hist. 390/1 The ministers, at least, he regarded as squeezable commodities, out of which something good might, by compression, be extracted. 1852W. Jerdan Autobiog. II. i. 7 As unlucky and squeezable by their more cunning competitors..as the literary man. 1884Manch. Exam. 23 Aug. 5/2 He hoped that China would be squeezable, and that the objects he had in view would be attained without war.
b. esp. From which money may be extracted.
1840Frazer's Mag. XXI. 243 Not a farthing beyond what they could squeeze from any quarter squeezable. 1880L. Oliphant Land of Gilead vi. 190 The result of their industry is only that they become more squeezable for taxes.
3. Capable of being extracted by pressure.
1843Tait's Mag. X. 805 Their necessities compel them to exact the last penny squeezable out of the unfortunate tenantry.
Hence ˈsqueezableness, = squeezability.
1844Blackw. Mag. LV. 119 The issuing of that order would depend entirely on the strength or the necessity of the Minister: on his ‘squeezableness’. 1871Standard 12 Apr. 6 Mr. Gladstone's ‘squeezableness’. |