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SQUISH
Definition of SQUISH
verb
To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
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Where it comes from
Apparently an alteration of squash, influenced by obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Scots squische, squies (“to crush, squeeze”). Compare also French esquicher, from Old Occitan esquichar (“to squeeze, squish”). See also squeeze and squelch. The noun is derived from the verb. The linguistic noun sense 4 was coined in 1972 by the American poet and linguist John R. Ross (1938–2025): see the quotation. Noun sense 5 (“a non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation”) was formed by analogy with crush and possibly smash, both of which have senses as types of compression as well as types of attraction. It was possibly first attested in 1999 (see the quotation) and then later coined or recoined in 2007 by the user Raisin on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as "a milder synonym for the word 'crush'". The term was also used with a similar meaning in a 1997 episode of the TV show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, though the 2007 coining or recoining was apparently independent.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SQUISH · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French, Old Occitan, Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SQUISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SQUISH starts with S and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read HIQSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SQUISH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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