squish

squish主要表示把柔软或湿润的东西挤压、压扁时的动作、声音或状态，也可引申为一种非正式的政治称呼，以及“轻度、非恋爱性的喜欢对象”。

💡 记忆钩子

先想象一团湿软的东西被挤压：它会发出“squish”的挤压声，也会被“squish”得变形。由这种“挤压感”延伸出政治语境中被压得不够强硬的温和派；现代俚语里则另分出一条较轻的感情线，表示不以恋爱或性关系为目标的喜欢。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“挤压、压扁”和相关声音这条核心意义，再记政治俚语和社群俚语等引申义。
表示喜欢某人时，不要自动把它理解成恋爱意义上的“crush”；这里通常强调柏拉图式、非恋爱性的喜欢。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 挤压声；挤压动作

📖 指湿软的东西被挤压、压碎时发出的声音，或这种挤压动作本身；重点是“挤下去时又软又有声”的画面。

💡 常见模式是“hear a squish”或“a squish of something”，用于描述听见一次湿软的挤压声或感受到一次挤压。它是可数名词，通常说“a squish”或“several squishes”，而不是把它当作不可数材料名词。这个词很口语化，适合叙述踩泥、挤软食物等具体场景。

countable

I heard a squish when her boot stepped into the puddle.

她的靴子踩进水洼时，我听到了一声湿软的挤压声。

The ripe peach made a squish in my hand.

熟透的桃子在我手里被一捏，发出湿软的挤压声。
common 温和派；软弱派

📖 在政治语境中，指被认为立场过于温和、缺少强硬态度的人，通常带有说话者的贬义。

💡 常见模式是“a squish”或“squishes like someone”，用于指责某个政治人物或一类人不够强硬。它是非正式且带贬义的称呼，常见于党派争论或评论文章，不是中性的政治分类。不要把这里的“软”理解成身体柔软，而要理解成政治立场上的让步或温和。

countable derogatory informal

The senator was attacked by party activists for being a squish.

这名参议员因为立场温和，被党内活动人士批评为软弱派。
rare 果酱

📖 英国英语中的古旧俚语，指橘子酱等果酱；可以把它看作把柔软、易涂抹的东西称为“squish”的旧式用法。

UK archaic slang uncountable

squishes plural

noun

common 非恋爱性的喜欢对象

📖 指你很喜欢、很想亲近或欣赏，但并不想和对方谈恋爱或发生性关系的人；也可以指这种感情本身。

💡 可以说“have a squish on someone”表示对某人有这种好感，也可以说“someone is my squish”表示某人是你的喜欢对象。它是俚语，使用范围比普通的“喜欢”窄，正式写作中应避免使用。不要把它直接当作恋爱关系或性吸引的名称。

slang

I have a squish on my new classmate, but I do not want to date them.

我很喜欢新同学，但不想和对方谈恋爱。

squishes plural

verb

core 挤压；压扁

📖 指用力把某物挤压、压扁或压碎，尤其是柔软、湿润、容易变形的东西；画面仍然是把一团软物挤到变形。

💡 基本模式是“squish something”，宾语直接放在动词后面，如“squish the fruit”。它通常是及物动词，不能只说“squish”来表达“把某物压扁”而省略明确对象，除非上下文已经很清楚。过去式和过去分词用“squished”，也常用于描述食物在容器中被压坏。

informal transitive

The books squished the sandwiches in my backpack.

书把我背包里的三明治压扁了。

She squished the berries into the bowl with a fork.

她用叉子把浆果压进碗里。
core 被挤压；发出挤压声

📖 指某物在受到挤压时变形，或人在踩、按、挤它时发出湿软的声音；这里强调软物自己呈现出的状态和声音。

💡 常见模式是“something squishes”或“something squishes between A and B”，表示某物被挤在两个物体之间或在脚下变形。这个不及物用法不直接带宾语；若要明确说“某人挤压某物”，应改用及物结构“someone squishes something”。它多用于口语和生动叙述，常带有触觉或声音色彩。

informal intransitive

The wet clay squished between my fingers.

湿黏土在我的手指间被挤得变形。

squishes present,singular,third-person squishing participle,present squished participle,past squished past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

同义词集: squish

上位: squirt

walk through mud or mire

同义词集: squelch squish splash splosh slosh slop

We had to splosh across the wet meadow

上位: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge

the noise of soft mud being walked on

同义词集: squish

上位: noise

🌳 词源

原本可能是squash受古旧词squiss影响形成的变体，和表示“挤压、压碎”的相关词同源。表示非恋爱性喜欢的现代俚语义则可能仿照crush和smash形成，并在二十一世纪初重新流行。

Apparently an alteration of squash, influenced by obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Scots squische, squies (“to crush, squeeze”). Compare also French esquicher, from Old Occitan esquichar (“to squeeze, squish”). See also squeeze and squelch. The noun is derived from the verb. The linguistic noun sense 4 was coined in 1972 by the American poet and linguist John R. Ross (1938–2025): see the quotation. Noun sense 5 (“a non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation”) was formed by analogy with crush and possibly smash, both of which have senses as types of compression as well as types of attraction. It was possibly first attested in 1999 (see the quotation) and then later coined or recoined in 2007 by the user Raisin on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network as "a milder synonym for the word 'crush'". The term was also used with a similar meaning in a 1997 episode of the TV show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, though the 2007 coining or recoining was apparently independent.

🔄 变式

squished past squishes plural squishing present

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