different between squishy vs smushy

English

Etymology

From squish +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skw??i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

squishy (comparative squishier or more squishy, superlative squishiest or most squishy)

1. (of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud.
   • 2009, Jamie Carie, Wind Dancer, B&H Publishing Group, ?ISBN, page 144:

     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.
2. (figuratively, of a person) Used as a term of endearment.
3. (informal) Subjective or vague.
4. (politics, informal, derogatory) Politically moderate.

Derived terms

• squishiness

Translations

Noun

squishy (plural squishies)

1. (informal) A squeezable foam toy.

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 […]