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squelchy, a.|ˈskwɛltʃɪ, ˈskwɛlʃɪ|
[f. squelch n. or v.]
1. Liable to squelch or to emit a squelching sound. Cf. squelching ppl. a. 2.
1843[James] Commissioner 48 The peer was seen struggling to raise the squelchy rotundity of his abdomen over the wall. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 153 It is to be remembered that the squelchy stomachs, as I have called them,..of many neurasthenics may be taken for dilated organs. 1914[see pawpaw]. 1928Daily Express 12 June 10/5 What Will Woman Do Next?.. Start an agitation, I shouldn't wonder, for the suppression of the word ‘women’. Sober and dignified once.., the over-work of the last ten years has made a sickening, squelchy mess of it.
2. Of sounds: = squelching ppl. a. 3.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 475 Squelchy sounds on manipulation are not certain signs of ectasis. 1904Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 1/3 At each stamp his shoes had made a squelchy squeak. |