squashn.1
/skwɒʃ/, U.S. /skwɔʃ/, /skwɑʃ/ I. Something that is soft or unripe, and related uses.† 2. squash pear, a variety of pear. squash perry, a beverage made from this. Obsolete.
1.
a. The unripe pod of a pea. Also applied contemptuously to persons. Obsolete exc. archaic.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant
unknownc1390
pawnc1450
semi-cipher?1550
bauble1570
Jack with the feather1581
nobody1583
winterling1585
squash1600
rush candle1628
niflec1635
nullity1657
nonentity1710
featherweight1812
underscrub1822
nyaff1825
small fish1836
no-account1840
little fish1846
peanut1864
commonplacer1874
sparrow-fart1886
Little Willie1901
pipsqueak1905
nebbish1907
pie-biter1911
blob1916
smallie1930
no-count1932
zilch1933
Mickey Mouse1935
muzhik1945
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nerk1955
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > pea-pod, pea-shell, or pea seed
peascodc1390
pease-hulla1425
pippina1450
squash1600
pea-hull1717
pea-cod1721
pea shell1744
pea pod1772
shaup1822
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 178 I pray you commend mee to mistresse Squash, your mother, and to master Peascod, your father. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 152 As a squash is before tis a pescod. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 162 This Kernell, This Squash, this Gentleman. View more context for this quotation
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. i. 34 The whole time..my mind was simply in the state of a squash before 'tis a peascod.]
b. dialect. (See quot. 1895.)
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1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 210 Squash,..pea-pods which look full but are really empty.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of
calewey1377
honey peara1400
pome-pear1440
pome-wardena1513
choke-pear1530
muscadel1555
worry pear1562
lording1573
bon-chrétienc1575
Burgundian pear1578
king pear1585
pound pear1585
poppering1597
wood of Jerusalem1597
muscadine1598
amiot1600
bergamot1600
butter pear1600
dew-pear1600
greening1600
mollart1600
roset1600
wax pear1600
bottle pear1601
gourd-pear1601
Venerian pear1601
musk pear1611
rose pear1611
pusill1615
Christian1629
nutmeg1629
rolling pear1629
surreine1629
sweater1629
amber pear1638
Venus-pear1648
horse-pear1657
Martin1658
russet1658
rousselet1660
diego1664
frith-pear1664
maudlin1664
Messire Jean1664
primate1664
sovereign1664
spindle-pear1664
stopple-pear1664
sugar-pear1664
virgin1664
Windsor pear1664
violet-pear1666
nonsuch1674
muscat1675
burnt-cat1676
squash pear1676
rose1678
Longueville1681
maiden-heart1685
ambrette1686
vermilion1691
admiral1693
sanguinole1693
satin1693
St. Germain pear1693
pounder pear1697
vine-pear1704
amadot1706
marchioness1706
marquise1706
Margaret1707
short-neck1707
musk1708
burree1719
marquis1728
union pear1728
Doyenne pear1731
Magdalene1731
beurré1736
colmar1736
Monsieur Jean1736
muscadella1736
swan's egg1736
chaumontel1755
St Michael's pear1796
Williams1807
Marie Louise1817
seckel1817
Bartlett1828
vergaloo1828
Passe Colmar1837
glou-morceau1859
London sugar1860
snow-pear1860
Comice1866
Kieffer pear1880
sand pear1880
sandy pear1884
snowy pear1884
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun] > perry
perryc1330
squash perry1826
1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 170 Pears that are esteemed for their Vinous Juice in Worcestershire and those adjacent parts, are the Red and Green Squash-pears.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 167 Pears..Red Squash, Bosbery, Watford.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Perry Of these the Bosbury pear, the Bareland pear, and the horse pear, are the most esteemed for perry in Worcestershire, and the squash pear, as it is called, in Gloucestershire.
1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 167 Squash perry, in ordinary seasons, [sells] from £4 to £8 the hhd.
3.
a. A soft india-rubber ball used in a form of the game of rackets (originally at Harrow). Also attributive, as squash-ball, squash-court, squash-racket (= the bat used in the game), squash-rackets (= the game); squash tennis n. U.S. a game similar to squash rackets, played with a lawn-tennis ball.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun]
squash-rackets1886
squash1899
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > court
squash-court1886
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > equipment
squash1886
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun]
sphairistike1874
squash1899
squash tennis1901
paddle tennis1922
platform paddle tennis1935
platform tennis1955
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 May 14/1 The game in question, termed ‘squash’ rackets at Harrow if my memory serves me... There are the ‘squashes’—that is, soft indiarubber balls—to be purchased.
1899 E. H. Miles Lessons Lawn Tennis 87 Turn that wall into a squash-racket court.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 8/2 Mr. John Jacob Astor has built a private ‘squash’ court.
1901 E. Miles Game of Squash i. 16 Americans generally use a Lawn-Tennis ball..and a Squash-Tennis racket, which is like a miniature Lawn-Tennis racket.
1905 H. A. Vachell Hill ii. 26 He bought..a ‘squash’ racquet, ‘squash’ balls, and a yard ball.
1917 National Squash Tennis Assoc. Rules 18 Description and specifications of a Squash Tennis Court, as adopted by the National Squash Tennis Association... The dimensions of a Standard Court shall be..Length 32 feet 6 inches Width 17 feet.
1928 N.Y. Times 12 Dec. 32/6 The success of the American players in the English squash racquets tournament... At the [American] colleges..squash racquets became more popular.
1930 A. Danzig Racquet Game iii. i. 157 The two varieties of squash—squash tennis and squash racquets—have so much in common that they may be called first cousins.
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 375/3 Squash tennis, which was invented in Boston in 1890, is a purely American game.
1973 Times 28 Sept. 5/6 There is a wide disparity between the international and American versions of squash rackets.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 985/1 The squash racket is not as strong as the rackets racket.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 992/2 Squash tennis was born in a school in Concord, New Hampshire,..but..was refined by Feron, of New York, who first wrapped netting round the ball.
b. elliptical for squash rackets or occasionally (U.S.), squash tennis.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun]
squash-rackets1886
squash1899
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > other types of tennis > [noun]
sphairistike1874
squash1899
squash tennis1901
paddle tennis1922
platform paddle tennis1935
platform tennis1955
1899 N.Y. World 8 Aug. 14/4 ‘Squash’.. is a variation of the time-honored court tennis.
1902 E. Miles (title) Racquets, tennis and squash.
19301 [see sense 3a]. 1952 J. B. Pick Phoenix Dict. Games 183 Squash is played with a rubber ball on a four-walled court.
1952 J. B. Pick Phoenix Dict. Games 185 Service in squash is not the deadly weapon it is in rackets.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 986/1 Squash is derived from, and has much in common with, the much older game of rackets, and originated at Harrow School.
II. The action of squashing or crushing, and related uses.
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a. The act of squashing; the fact or sound of some soft substance being crushed or dispersed.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure > flattening by pressure
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escachure,..a squash, crush, knock, or squeeze (wherby a thing is flatted, or beaten close together).
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 249 Anon, our Hero's Boots, well-soak'd with Wash, At ev'ry Step return'd a dreadful Squash.
b. The shock or impact occasioned by a soft heavy body falling upon a surface; the sound produced by this. Also in with a squash.
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > soft
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > soft impact
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 74 The place, the fall, the squash, the hugge,..did so confound our Votary, that he could not containe.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. ii. 12 I shall throw down the Burden with a squash amongst them, take it up who dares.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 143 My Fall was stopped by a terrible Squash, that sounded louder to mine Ears than the Cataract of Niagara.
1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet III. 131 This uncommon mass of mortality rolled on to a seat next to Zaire, on which she sunk with a mighty squash.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 107 Hearing a squash, he cried, Damn it, what's that?
c. to go to squash, to become squashed or ruined.
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to make shipwreck1526
to go to (the) pot1531
to go to wreck (and ruin)a1547
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to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
to lie in the dusta1591
mischief1598
to go (etc.) to rack (and ruin)1599
shipwreck1607
suffera1616
unravel1643
to fall off1684
tip (over) the perch1699
to do away with1769
to go to the dickens1833
collapse1838
to come (also go) a mucker1851
mucker1862
to go up1864
to go to squash1889
to go (to) stramash1910
to go for a burton1941
to meet one's Makera1978
1889 Froude Table-talk Shirley 205 It has all gone to squash.
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a. College Football slang. = scrimmage n. 3.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scrum
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set scrum1925
scrum-down1943
1857 Symonds Let. in H. F. Brown Life (1903) iii. 58 A squash is a large collection of boys, about twenty, with the football in the midst of them.
1867 Routledge's Handbk. Football 51 A disputed ‘touch-down’, in consequence of the ball having been carried in by a squash or otherwise.
b. A crush or crowd of persons, etc.; a large number.
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1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 4 Young Lord Horsewhipborough is just passing as slowly as the modern squash compels one to progress.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. ii. 178 Your father made a will, Only there was not anything to will Except a squash of sermons.
c. A social gathering; an informal religious or literary meeting.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun]
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squash1904
1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. iii. xiv. 252 The intrinsic oddity of the London ‘squash’, a thing of vague, slow, senseless eddies.
1916 L. Einstein Let. 31 July in Holmes-Einstein Lett. (1964) ii. 134 The season, however, which I loathe, was rendered nicer by the war..no more fat squashes but agreeable dinners and luncheons.
1938 M. Whitlow J. Taylor Smith xi. 114 The Intervarsity Christian Fellowship have a ‘date’ with him for a series of ‘Squashes’ at Oxford and Cambridge.
1977 L. Gordon Eliot's Early Years iii. 47 In 1912, Conrad Aiken took ‘Prufrock’ to a ‘poetry squash’ in London and showed it to Harold Monro.
1979 PN Review 13 19/1 Lord, you know that next week is the Freshers' Squash.
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a. Something which is squashed or crushed.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure
squelch1837
squash1888
1888 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/2 It seemed churlish to pass him by without a sign, especially as he took off his squash of a hat to me.
b. Biology. A preparation of softened tissue that has been made thin for microscopic examination by pressing or tapping.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > sample
spread1895
smear1903
squash1942
sonicate1955
stabilate1965
1942 C. D. Darlington & L. F. La Cour Handling of Chromosomes v. 40 Sections have now been largely replaced by smears and squashes for all but the smallest masses of material.
1971 Nature 18 June 452/2 Fifty cells of three females and thirty-two cells of four males were examined. A testis squash was also made to give meiotic figures.
1981 Japanese Jrnl. Genetics 56 529 This method enables the observation of both C-banding patterns and the karyotypes by aceto-orcein squash technique in the same chromosome complement.
7. Short for lemon squash n. at lemon n.1 Compounds 2. Also, a drink made from the juice of crushed fruit other than lemons; = crush n. 4e. Frequently as second element of combinations: see lime squash n. at lime n.2 Compounds 2, orange squash n. at orange n.1 and adj.1 Compounds 2a(c).
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun]
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squash1894
crush1919
the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > lemon juice or squash
lemon-juice1617
lemon squash1876
squash1894
citron pressé1916
1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 203 A smaller table held ices, squashes, and such.
1904 D. B. W. Sladen When we were Lovers in Japan ii. iv She..kept her mouth intently on the straw in her squash.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vii. 644 Will you have a squash and a biscuit?
1936 Discovery June 192/1 Fruit Squashes, containing the pulp of the fruit, were analogous to the well-known orange and lemon squashes. The blackcurrant squash was remarkable for its delicate flavour.
1939 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies (rev. ed.) x. 99 Jane suggested that they should..have a lemon-squash... Ernest did not want a squash.
1967 Coast to Coast 1965–6 185 ‘Come on in and I'll make you a squash.’.. Meg squeezed a lemon for his drink.
1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 913 Most fruit squashes are unsuitable for babies.
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squash bite n. Dentistry an impression of the teeth made by biting the jaws together on a piece of plastic material.
1914 N. G. Bennett Sci. & Pract. Dental Surg. xxxvii. 607/1 A ‘squash bite’ impression, or even one taken in the ordinary way in a tray, is very easily distorted in removing from the mouth.
1940 J. Osborne Dental Mech. v. 47 It is usual if this type of block is used to have taken a ‘squash bite’ at the impression stage.
1963 C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns, & Bridges ii. 10 The relationship of the prepared tooth to adjacent and opposing teeth must be recorded in the indirect technique with a wax or an alginate squash bite.
Draft additions 1993
ˈsquasher n.2 U.S. one who plays squash rackets, a squash player.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > player
squasher1977
1977 Dun's Rev. Sept. 73/3 A squasher can belong to his Broad Street Club for $50 a year plus $8 per prime-time half hour.
1987 Christian Sci. Monitor 16 Nov. 18/4 Veteran squashers, however, teach more than how to win trophies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
squashn.2
/skwɒʃ/, U.S. /skwɔʃ/, /skwɑʃ/ 1.
a. A gourd produced by one or other of various species of trailing herbaceous annual plants belonging to the genus Cucurbita or N.O. Cucurbitaceæ, esp. a fruit of the bush gourd, C. Melopepo.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash
melon-pompion1577
simnel1640
squash1643
cushaw1698
simlin1775
squash-pumpkin1819
squash gourd1823
summer crookneck1832
melon pumpkin1840
bush gourd1842
crook-neck1844
Hubbard squash1868
mirliton1901
butternut pumpkin1916
buttercup1930
butternut1940
1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. 103 Askutasquash, their Vine aples, which the English from them call Squashes, about the bignesse of Apples, of severall colours, sweet, light, wholesome, refreshing.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 259 In a weighed quantity of digged earth..he set the seed of a squash.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 4) II. 174 Squashes are a small sort of Pumpkin lately brought into request.
1764 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (1765) 35 A dearth..caused them to fall upon their pompions, squoshes, &c. before they were ripe.
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 10 It we strip off the coats from the large and flat seed of a Squash or Pumpkin, we find nothing but the embryo within.
1877 W. Matthews Ethnogr. Hidatsa 26 Squashes are cut in thin slices and dried; the dried squash is usually cooked by boiling.
b. Used in singular with the, or without article.
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1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iv. §xxxii. 205 Dr. Russell tells us that the squash comes in towards the end of September, and continues all the year.
1878 W. Black Green Pastures xl Not at all desirous of eating at one and the same time boiled beans,..green corn, squash and sweet potatoes.
1902 Fortn. Rev. June 1007 The divine ‘sweet corn’, and ‘squash’, and ‘sweet potatoes’.
2. One or other species of Cucurbita producing the above fruit; the genus as a whole.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash > squash plants
squash1661
1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist ii. 107 A selected seed of..Squash, which is an Indian kind of Pompion, that Growes a pace.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Melopepo, The Squash.
1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 26 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Here is a native gourd or squash, which runs 20 foot up the trees.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 358/1 Cucurbita melopepo, the Squash, forms a bush about 3 ft. high.
1884 de Candolle's Orig. Cultivated Pl. 252 The Cucurbitaceæ called squash by the Anglo-Americans.
3. With distinctive premodifiers: (see quots.).
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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Melopepo The common or flat Squash... The large white Squash... The Citron-shap'd Squash... The warted Squash.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 137 It is exceedingly curious to behold the Wild Squash climbing over the lofty limbs of the trees.
1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. App. 284 Cucurbita..ovifera, (egg-squash).
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 96/1 C. verrucosa, club squash.
1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 142 C. melopepo... Flat Squash.
1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 142 C. ovifera... Egg Squash... C. verrucosa... Club Squash.
1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 60 Cucurbita melopepo..Round Squash.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 359/1 The Custard Marrow Squash, and the improved Custard Marrow or Bush Squash.
1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1344/1 Summer Squash, Cucurbita Pepo. Winter Squash, Cucurbita maxima.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.Also, in recent American dictionaries, squash-beetle, squash-(vine) borer, squash flea-beetle, squash ladybird, and squash ladybug, as names of insects infesting squashes.
squash bed n.
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1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 39 The Cucumber and Squash tribe.
squash pie n.
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1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 213/1 Cranberry sauce, and thick squash pies.
squash seed n.
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1708 S. Sewall Diary 15 Jan. (1973) I. 585 This day Mr. Belchar brings me Squash-Seeds from Dedham.
squash shell n.
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1725 S. Willard in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 238 They found 2 wigwarms;..they also found a paddle and some squash shells in one of them.
squash soup n.
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1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 62 We dined on Indian corn and squash soop, and boiled bread.
squash vine n.
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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 137 The Squash-vine is long and trailing.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 297 They will nearly get their living on insects without injuring the vegetables. Among squash vines they are indispensable.
C2.
squash-berry n. the red berry of Viburnum pauciflorum, a deciduous North American shrub; = mooseberry n. at moose n.2 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries
hedge-berry1607
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Indian pear1796
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bead-berry1923
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries
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tummelberry1984
1935 Lady Rockley Wild Flowers Great Dominions Brit. Empire 60 Its [sc. Viburnum pauciflorum's] berries known as the ‘Squash-berry’ are gathered and make an excellent preserve.
1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 32 He even shook his head at bakeapple jam, squashberry jelly and ‘meshberries’.
1974 J. E. Underhill Wild Berries Pacific Northwest 23 Huckleberries, Blueberries, Squash-berries, and many others, may be made into delicious jams.
squash blossom n. the flower of the plant on which squashes grow, applied attributively to jewellery made by the Navajo which is characterized by designs (of Spanish, and ult. Moorish, derivation, representing pomegranates) resembling this flower.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun]
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [adjective] > specific shape or form
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scarabaeoid1889
squash blossom1923
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [adjective] > of or relating to squash or pumpkin > of squash blossom
squash blossom1923
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash > squash plants > blossom on
squash blossom1923
1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 19 The fig, the horseshoe, the squash-blossom. Symbols.
1930 D. Coolidge & M. R. Coolidge Navajo Indians xvi. 115 The beautiful squash-blossom pendants which the Hopis like so much.
1944 J. Adair Navajo & Pueblo Silversmiths v. 83 I watched Charie make other pieces. One of them was a squash-blossom bead.
1950 S. H. Babington Navajos, Gods & Tom-toms xv. 170 The pronged pieces in the beautiful so-called squash blossom necklace are the buttons which were sewed along the outside seams..of Spanish army officers' pants.
1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) ii. 10/2 Carol..had embellished it with her trademark jewelry: an authentic squash-blossom necklace.
squash-bug n. one or other of various insects infesting or injurious to squashes.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > injurious to squashes
squash-bug1847
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Squash-bug, the common name of a bug injurious to squashes.
1866 H. B. Stowe Little Foxes 124 In the actual garden there are..squash-bugs for all the melons.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table ix Dor-bugs and squash-bugs and such undesirable objects of affection to all but naturalists.
squash gourd n. = squash-pumpkin n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash
melon-pompion1577
simnel1640
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simlin1775
squash-pumpkin1819
squash gourd1823
summer crookneck1832
melon pumpkin1840
bush gourd1842
crook-neck1844
Hubbard squash1868
mirliton1901
butternut pumpkin1916
buttercup1930
butternut1940
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. (at cited word) Squash-gourd, the Cucurbita melopepo of Linnæus.
squash-pumpkin n. (also squash-melon pumpkin) the common bush gourd or squash, Cucurbita Melopepo.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash
melon-pompion1577
simnel1640
squash1643
cushaw1698
simlin1775
squash-pumpkin1819
squash gourd1823
summer crookneck1832
melon pumpkin1840
bush gourd1842
crook-neck1844
Hubbard squash1868
mirliton1901
butternut pumpkin1916
buttercup1930
butternut1940
1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 391 With regard to these said quasheys (which, I believe, is their name,—first cousins to the squash pumpkin).
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 605 The Squash-melon pumpkin, or bush gourd.
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squash knife n. U.S. historical a thin, flat knife made from the scapula of a mammal, usually a buffalo, by North American Indians, esp. the Hidatsa, to slice squash and other soft vegetables.
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1917 E. Goodbird in G. L. Wilson Agric. of Hidatsa Indians v. 71 Each of the old women had a squash knife in her hand, made of the thin part of the shoulder bone of a buffalo, if it was an old-fashioned one; butcher knives of steel are now used.
1931 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Nov. 10 The Indian of half a century ago was..economical of the buffalo he shot down... The shoulderblades were used in the manufacture of hoes and squash knives, spades and other tools.
1959 W. R. Wedel Introd. Kansas Archeol. 454 A thin flat subrectangular piece, measuring 28 by 65 mm., has been cut from the blade of a scapula digging tool. One long edge shows the thin beveling of the original tool blade; the other edges have been rounded and smoothed, beyond doubt purposely. The piece may have been a ‘squash knife’ or something for similar use.
1991 L. Bryan Buffalo People 175 If the Cluny inhabitants were immigrants from the farming villages on the Missouri, where were their squash knives, their scapula hoes and other digging implements?
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† squashn.3
Obsolete.
The musk-rat or musquash, Fiber zibethicus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Ondatra (musk-rat)
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Muscovy rat1693
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Ondatra1774
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beaver-rat1884
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1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Squash, a little Creature in some parts of America, somewhat resembling an Ichnumon or Indian Rat.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 59 The Squash is a four-footed Beast, bigger than a Cat.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 380 But the smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats, is fragrance itself when compared to that of the squash and the skink.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 201 Another stinkard, called the Squash, is said by Buffon to be found in some of the southern states.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 116 As..the Skink and squash, are treated by American Woodmen, who turn their backs upon the fetid Intruder.
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squashv.1
/skwɒʃ/, U.S. /skwɔʃ/, /skwɑʃ/ 1. figurative.1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times 24/1 More cleerly will we yet reueale their grosse absurditie, and..squash in pieces their unexcusable error.1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 60 Between crinolines and theories, some of us would get squashed.
a. transitive. To squeeze, press, or crush into a flat mass or pulp; to beat to, or dash in, pieces, etc. Also with prepositions, as in, to.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > make broad in relation to thickness [verb (transitive)] > make thin and flat by pressure
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to-squatc1325
quasha1387
squash1565
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1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. ii. x. f. 61 Ye must, I saye, teare them, rent them, and squasshe them to peeces.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 540 But the top of the gallery fell downe apon the boyes that were left, and squashed them all to death.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 289 The hennes..hide themselues from their males the cocks; for..they would squash their egs.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 277 Squashing and beating them vpon some stone,..shee made our cloathes reasonable white.
1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) ix. 58 Note, that in sowing the Berry 'tis good to squash and bruise them with fine siefted Mould.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 11 One of the Reapers..made me apprehend that..I should be squashed to Death under his Foot.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 58 In shuffling the cards,..squashing them together, breaking their edges [etc.].
1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 186 There have indeed been..men who have piled such a load of books on their heads, their brains have seemed to be squasht by them.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 327 There were eight elephants killed that day, but three burst through everything,..squashing two men and a baby.
b. With adverbs, as down, up.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escraser, to squash downe, beat flat.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 105 A sort of wrought lime, which being squashed down upon the bridge..has a most terrible effect.
1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 320 I was not able to accompany my host, but had to be squashed up in the crowd.
c. To quash; to suppress or put down; to undo or destroy in a complete or summary manner.Also, in recent colloquial use, to silence, discomfit, or repress (a person) in a very decisive or crushing way.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)
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to wrestle down?1611
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strangulate1665
instranglea1670
to choke back, down, in, out1690
to nip or crush in the bud1746
spiflicate1749
squasha1777
to get under1799
burke1835
to stamp out1851
to trample down1853
quelch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
smash1865
garrotte1878
scotch1888
douse1916
to drive under1920
stomp1936
stultify1958
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid
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cancel-
a1777 S. Foote Orators ii, in Dramatic Wks. (1788) II. 37 I therefore, humbly move to squash [earlier quash] this indictment.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xviii. 269 I, to squash my convictions, to stultify my book for the sake of popularity, money, patronage!
1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 258 The report spread that I had broken down completely, or, as a Johnian elegantly expressed it, was squashed.
1895 Law Times 98 280/2 The Pharmaceutical Society made a strenuous attempt to squash the Stores as vendors of drugs.
a. To press or squeeze out. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > twist, wring, or squeeze out
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squeeze1602
squeeze1611
out-scruze1626
compel1657
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 59 Now squashing out their bellies soft and round.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 372 The battalions troden under foot and their guts squashed out.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > on or upon a person
squasha1602
a1602–3 Queen Elizabeth in I. H. Jeayes Cat. Charters Berkeley Castle (1892) 323 I somewhat still doute that ther hath bene to greate abundance of the same [sc. water] squasshed upon you.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Squash, v., to splash; to moisten by plentiful affusion.
3. intransitive. To emit or make a splashing sound; to move, walk, etc., in this way; to splash.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move noisily > with splashing noise
squash1671
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > through a liquid
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swalter?a1400
paddle1530
dabble1611
squash1671
slush1853
sqush1929
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splash
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sloosh1914
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. lv. 142 Ascites is when much Water is heaped up between the Peritoneum and the Bowels, so that when it is struck it doth squash as it were.
1839 T. Hood Ode to St. Swithin vii Why upon snow-white table-cloths and sheets..Come squashing?
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. ii. 4 Once more, the Dover mail struggled on, with the Jack-boots of its passengers squashing along by its side.
1893 Outing 22 139/1 Our feet ‘squashing’ as we step, for our boots are full of rain-water.
4. To be pressed into a flat mass on impact; to flatten out under pressure.Cf. Florio's use of squashing participial adjective (quot. 1611 at sense 1b below).
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > become broad in relation to thickness [verb (intransitive)] > be flattened by pressure
squash1858
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 121 Some other mixtures..sufficiently strong to resist all tendency to squash; as the softer metals would inevitably do.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 710/1 There must be the most skilful handling, lest the load ‘squash out’.
Derivatives
ˈsquasher n.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Quasseur, a squasher, breaker.
ˈsquashing n. and adj.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [adjective] > flattening by pressure
squashing1598
squelching1885
the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > something flattened by pressure > flattening by pressure
squattinga1400
squashing1598
squash1611
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squaccio, a squashing, a hauocke.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escrasement, a crushing flat, a squashing downe.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Squala,..a kind of soft squashing Hazle-nut.
1865 S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor ii A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow.
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squashv.2
rare.
intransitive. To frequent crowded assemblies.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > give or attend fashionable gatherings
drum1825
squash1867
1867 J. L. Motley Let. 22 July. in Corr. (1889) II. viii. 269 How anything can be done in London but breakfast, lunch, dine, and squash, if one really goes in for ‘promiscuous Ned’, I can't comprehend.
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squashadv.
With or as with a squash. Frequently in to go squash (also transferred).
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1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide iv. ii. 28 His Wig had the Luck a Cathartic to meet, And squash went the Gallipot under his Feet.
1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 246 He came down, in less than no time, squash on his nose, and broke it.
1886 G. Allen & M. Cotes Kalee's Shrine ii Some cottages may really go squash before long.
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