SQUASHY

spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike

(adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; “spongy bread”

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”

pulpy, squashy

(adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

squashy (comparative squashier, superlative squashiest)

Easily squashed when pressed.

Resembling a bog or marsh underfoot.

Source: Wiktionary


Squash"y, a.

Definition: Easily squashed; soft.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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