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smushy

smushy adjective: inclined to smush; squishy, wetly soft.

Adjective

smushy (comparative smushier, superlative smushiest)

  1. Inclined to smush; squishy, wetly soft.
    • Nasty little green things that look like lice will probably appear — beastly, soft, smushy aphids they are.1910, Grace Tabor, Gardner Callahan Teall, The Garden Primer
    • I found a half-full plastic milk jug with no lid and not one single lemon. There was a carton of smushy, oozing cherry tomatoes[…]2007, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Preston McDaniels, Phineas L. MacGuire... Gets Slimed!: The Second Experiment

Forms of smushy

comparativesmushier
superlativesmushiest

Origin of smushy

From smush + -y.

Questions about smushy

What does smushy mean?
Smushy means inclined to smush; squishy, wetly soft.
What part of speech is smushy?
Smushy is an adjective.

Words near smushy in the dictionary

  1. smush name
  2. smush names
  3. smushed
  4. smushes
  5. smushing
  6. smushy
  7. smut
  8. smut fungus
  9. smut-ball
  10. smut-balls
  11. smutch

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