[
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.
- Dehydrated cheese omelette - you ever taste squashy plasterboard ? C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
- I sat down in the living room on the big, squashy leather couch our landlady provided.
- In Series Two and Five, they were squashy and smelled of fish, which made sense since both those Anywheres had so much water in them. THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
- They become deliciously sweet and squashy and make a perfect filling for a pie.
- The rooms are furnished in period style with squashy sofas and chairs in intimate groupings complete with photographs and hunting trophies from bygone eras and current family snaps.
- There are rainproof bags for stormy days, sturdy totes for the beach, delicate fabrics for evening, and squashy shoulder bags for casual wear.
- And like most other bibliophiles, my secret ambition is to earn a living from running the Perfect Bookshop - with squashy leather couches, warm wooden shelves, home-made cakes and, in my case, luxury yarns in the corner.
- What evidence is there for the supposedly health-giving properties of these soil-encrusted tubers and these repulsive, squashy sacks of sticky juice and seed?
- The rooms are furnished in period style with squashy sofas and chairs in intimate groupings complete with photographs and hunting trophies from bygone eras and current family snaps.