different between sqush vs squush

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

sqush (third-person singular simple present squshes, present participle squshing, simple past and past participle squshed)

1. (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
   • 1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls

     […] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush […]

   • 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (page 12)

     His feet squshed in the water as he went […] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.

   • 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” in Leaves of Grass, page 36:

     […] At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush....sucking the juice through a straw,

English

Verb

squush (third-person singular simple present squushes, present participle squushing, simple past and past participle squushed)

1. Alternative spelling of sqush

Noun

squush (plural squushes)

1. A squashing or squelching sound.

Interjection

squush

1. A squashing or squelching sound.
   • 1972, Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters

     They looked down at the ants and other bugs they saw and felt enormously big and powerful. They pretended the bugs were people. "Got me a dozen!" Squush.