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UK
/skwˈɒʃi/
]
[ US /ˈskwɑʃi/ ]
[ US /ˈskwɑʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness
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(of soil) soft and watery
swampy bayous
a marshy coastline
quaggy terrain
muddy barnyard
the ground was boggy under foot
miry roads
the sloughy edge of the pond
wet mucky lowland -
easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
spongy bread
How To Use squashy In A Sentence
- Throwing himself into one of the office's numerous squashy chairs, Irvine admits to a last - minute attack of the collywobbles.
- I've bought some squashy pillows for the couch.
- Dried fruit is a good addition and the sour, squashy dried cranberries available in little packets are particularly well-suited to this job.
- Nevertheless, only squashy banana just has these effect, unripe banana may rise counteractive .
- Throwing himself into one of the office's numerous squashy chairs, Irvine admits to a last - minute attack of the collywobbles.
- A willingness to accept untidiness: shaggy hedges, hairy field margins, trees, fallen branches, unkept bits, tangly bits, squashy bits. Times, Sunday Times
- What mechanism allows toadstools -- essentially very soft and squashy items -- to push through two inches of asphalt?
- Bake for 75 minutes, until they are dry but still squashy.
- Instead I went to sit on the squashy overstuffed leather chair by the books.
- Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages. Essays in Rebellion
