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squish

  [skwish] ,
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–verb (used with object)
1. to squeeze or squash.
–verb (used without object)
2. (of water, soft mud, etc.) to make a gushing or splashing sound when walked in or on: The soaking wet sneakers squished as he walked.
–noun
3. a squishing sound: the squish of footsteps on wet leaves.
Origin:
1640–50; alter. of squash 1
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squish   (skwĭsh)   
v.   squished, squish·ing, squish·es

v.   tr.
To squeeze or crush together or into a flat mass; squash.
v.   intr.
To emit the gurgling or sucking sound of soft mud being walked on.
n.  
  1. A squishing sound.
  2. Slang A person regarded as weak and ineffective.

[Probably alteration of squash2.]
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squish 
1647, probably a variant of squash (1), perhaps by influence of obsolete squiss "to squeeze or crush" (1558). Squishy (adj.) first attested 1847.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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