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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /skw??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /skw??/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /skw??/
• (rural US, intrusive r) IPA^(key): /skw???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *exco?cti?re, from Latin ex + co?ct?re. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).

Noun

squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes)

1. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
2. (Britain) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.

3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

4. (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.

   Synonym: smear

5. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
6. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
7. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
8. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
   • Orr, James (18 August 2014) , “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to John Cena vs Brock Lesnar”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[3], The Independent, retrieved 30 July 2015

     It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:squash.

Derived terms

Related terms

• quash

Descendants

Translations

See also

• racketball

Verb

squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)

1. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.

3. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.

Synonyms

• (to compress): condense, press; see also Thesaurus:compress

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:squash.

Derived terms

• squash up
• squashy
• squish

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) +? asquash (“eaten”).

Noun

squash (countable and uncountable, plural squash or squashes)

2. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
   1. Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
   2. Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
   3. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
   4. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
3. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
   1. Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
4. (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.

Derived terms

Hyponyms

• pumpkin

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of musquash.

Noun

squash (plural squashes)

1. (obsolete, countable) Muskrat.
   • 1705, William Dampier, A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World

     The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.

Further reading

• squash at OneLook Dictionary Search
• squash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cucurbita on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cucurbita on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

Czech

Etymology

From English squash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?skvo?]
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

squash m

1. squash

Derived terms

• squashista

Further reading

• squash in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Finnish

Etymology

From English squash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sku?s/, [?s?ku?s?]
• IPA^(key): /?sku??/, [?s?ku??]
• Syllabification: squ?ash

Noun

squash

1. (sports) squash

   Synonym: kössi

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English squash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwa?/

Noun

squash m (plural squashs)

1. (sports) (uncountable) squash

   Jouer au squash.

2. squash game

   On s'est fait deux squashs aujourd'hui.

3. squash court

   La ville a construit trois squashs municipaux.

Further reading

• “squash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• skvåsj

Etymology

Borrowed from English squash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

squash m (definite singular squashen, indefinite plural squasher, definite plural squashene)

1. squash (fruit)
2. squash (sport)
3. squash (soft drink)

Inflection

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• skvåsj

Etymology

Borrowed from English squash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

squash m (definite singular squashen, indefinite plural squashar, definite plural squashane)

1. squash (fruit)
2. squash (sport)
3. squash (soft drink)

Inflection

Polish

Etymology

From English squash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skw??/

Noun

squash m inan

1. squash (sport)

Declension

Further reading

• squash in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• squash in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English squash.

Noun

squash m (uncountable)

1. squash (sport)

Further reading

• “squash” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Slovak

Etymology

From English squash.

Noun

squash m

1. squash (sport)

Further reading

• squash in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

English

Etymology

From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”). Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??æt.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æt.?/
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Hyphenation: shat?ter

Verb

shatter (third-person singular simple present shatters, present participle shattering, simple past and past participle shattered)

1. (transitive) to violently break something into pieces.

2. (transitive) to destroy or disable something.
3. (intransitive) to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
4. (transitive) to dispirit or emotionally defeat
   • 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36

     Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.

   • 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News, Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41

     A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.

   • 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163

     The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
5. (obsolete) To scatter about.

Translations

Noun

shatter (countable and uncountable, plural shatters)

1. (countable, archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

     it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters

2. A (pine) needle.

   Synonym: shat (Maryland, Delaware)

   • 1834, The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs: Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States, page 421:

     My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...

   • 1859, Samuel W. Cole, The New England Farmer, page 277:

     They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more.

   • 2012, Marguerite Henry, Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 95:

     Grandpa snapped his fingers. "Consarn it all!" he sputtered. "I plumb forgot the pine shatters. Paul and Maureen, you gather some nice smelly pine shatters from off 'n the floor of the woods. Nothin' makes a better cushion for pony feet as pine shatters ..."

3. (uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hatters, Threats, hatters, stareth, threats