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squishy

/ˈskwɪʃi/

squishy adjective: yielding easily to pressure; very soft.

Adjective

squishy (comparative squishier, superlative squishiest)

  1. (literally) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
    • The toy was soft and squishy, making it fun to squeeze.
    • The mud was squishy underfoot after the rainstorm.
    1. (especially, literally) Soft and wet.
      • Finished with head and hair, the women pulled her up the bank to wash her body, the soft squishy mud registering for the first time on the outer consciousness of Isabelle’s mind.2009, Jamie Carie, Wind Dancer, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 144
  2. (figuratively) Subjective or vague.
    • How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less...April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair
  3. (colloquial, derogatory, figuratively) Politically moderate.
  4. (figuratively) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.
    • Yeah, I’m, like, freaking tissue paper here. Come get the mage, everyone. Pick on the poor squishy mage!2006, Marianne Mancusi, Stake That!, page 28
    • Telling your healers how well they kept people alive when a battle was difficult is important; or, what a great job your thief did in disarming the traps to get to the raid; clapping your warriors on their backs for maintaining aggro (i.e., keeping the monster targeting them rather than “squishy”...2008, Jeon Rezvani, Guild Leadership: Lessons from the Virtual World, page 111
    Antonyms:
    tanky
  5. Making a squish sound.
    • Those darling, squishy little footsteps...Is that you, Punio?2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Boggly Woods

Noun

squishy (plural squishies)

  1. (colloquial) A squeezable stress reliever, especially one made of foam.
  2. (slang) A term of endearment.
    • “It’s going to be fine,” Mother said in her soothing motherly voice. “Is it?” I whispered. “Yes squishy Josh, it will,” she motherlily soothed me.2021, Josh Carrott, “Qingdao”, in Once upon a Time in Carrotland: My YouTube Autobiography Which I Definitely Wrote All Of, [Portsmouth, Hampshire]: Compass-Publishing UK, →ISBN

squishy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

squishy in Hindi

(of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud
गुदगुदा gudgudā, पिलपिला pilpilā

squishy in Tamil

ஸ்க்விஷி, ஸ்குவிஷி, ஸ்க்விஷ்

squishy in Marathi

स्क्विशी, स्क्वीशी, स्कुइशी

squishy in Urdu

سکویشی, سکویسی
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squishy in Bengali
স্কুইশি, স্কুইশী, স্কুইসি
squishy in Telugu
స్క్విషీ, స్క్విషి, స్క్విష్
squishy in Malayalam
സ്ക്വിഷി, സ്ക്വിഷ്
squishy in Kannada
ಸ್ಕ್ವಿಶಿ, ಸ್ಕ್ವಿಶ್, ಸ್ಕ್ವಿಷಿ
squishy in Punjabi
ਸ੍ਕ੍ਵੀਸ਼ੀ
squishy in Gujarati
સ્ક્વિશી, સ્ક્વીશી
squishy in Odia
ସ୍କ୍ୱିଶି, ସ୍କୁଇଶି, ସ୍କୁଇସି
squishy in Nepali
स्क्विशी, स्क्विसी, स्कुइसी

Examples of squishy in a sentence

  • I love how squishy the pillow is—it’s so comfortable to sleep on.
  • Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How:

All 12 example sentences with squishy

Antonyms of squishy

Forms of squishy

Adjective
comparativesquishier
superlativesquishiest
alternative nounsquishie
Noun
pluralsquishies

Origin of squishy

From squish + -y.

Words formed from squishy

Words that rhyme with squishy

Questions about squishy

What does squishy mean?
Squishy means yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
What is squishy in Hindi?
Squishy in Hindi is गुदगुदा (gudgudā), पिलपिला (pilpilā). See Squishy meaning in Hindi.
How do you use squishy in a sentence?
I love how squishy the pillow is—it’s so comfortable to sleep on.
What part of speech is squishy?
Squishy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce squishy?
Squishy is pronounced /ˈskwɪʃi/.

Words near squishy in the dictionary

  1. squishily
  2. squishiness
  3. squishinesses
  4. squishing
  5. squishingly
  6. squishy
  7. squishyness
  8. squit
  9. squitch
  10. squitch grass
  11. squitchy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squishy (page history and authors); squishy (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); squishy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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