different between smush vs smushy

English

Alternative forms

• smoosh

Etymology

Possibly blend of smash +? mush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm??/, /sm??/
• Rhymes: -??, -??

Noun

smush (plural smushes)

1. A beaten or pulverized mass.

2. An act of crushing or squeezing.
   • 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):

     Some carriers are taking the smush to new heights. Spirit Airlines, for instance, uses seats on some flights with the backrest permanently set back three inches. Call it, as Spirit does, “prereclined.”

Verb

smush (third-person singular simple present smushes, present participle smushing, simple past and past participle smushed)

1. (transitive) to mash; or push; especially to push down or in; compress

2. (slang, New York, US) To engage in intimate contact, especially sexual relations.

Synonyms

• (compress): press, squash, squeeze; see also Thesaurus:compress
• (engage in intimate contact): go to bed with, sleep with, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Anagrams

• Shums

Scots

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sm??]

Verb

smush (third-person singular present smushes, present participle smushin, past smusht, past participle smusht)

1. to crush, smash, dust

Noun

smush (uncountable)

1. fragments of dirt, etc.
2. (Orkney) smoke or dust flying about

Derived terms

• aal in smush (“completely broken up”)

Further reading

• Flaws, Margaret; Lamb, Gregor (1996) The Orkney Dictionary, Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Language and Culture Group, published 2001, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

smush +? -y

Adjective

smushy (comparative smushier, superlative smushiest)

1. Inclined to smush; squishy, wetly soft.
   • 1910, Grace Tabor, Gardner Callahan Teall, The Garden Primer

     Nasty little green things that look like lice will probably appear — beastly, soft, smushy aphids they are.

   • 2007, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Preston McDaniels, Phineas L. MacGuire... Gets Slimed!: The Second Experiment

     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 […]