Squishy
adjective
Soft and easy to crush or change shape.
The ripe peach was very squishy.
Often appears as...
- squishy toy
- squishy fruit
adjective
Lacking firmness or strength.
His handshake was a bit squishy.
Often appears as...
- squishy handshake
- squishy personality
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
In computing, excessively complicated or inelegant.
The code became squishy after everyone added bits to it.
Often appears as...
- squishy code
- squishy software
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Technical
adjective
Soft and easy to crush or change shape.
The ripe peach was very squishy.
Often appears as...
- squishy toy
- squishy fruit
adjective
Lacking firmness or strength.
His handshake was a bit squishy.
Often appears as...
- squishy handshake
- squishy personality
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
In computing, excessively complicated or inelegant.
The code became squishy after everyone added bits to it.
Often appears as...
- squishy code
- squishy software
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Descriptor
Use 'squishy' to describe things with a soft, moldable texture, like some foods or materials.
I enjoy the squishy texture of marshmallows in my hot chocolate.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Squishy' can imply overripe or unpleasant texture when used with foods.
I avoided the squishy bananas at the bottom of the fruit bowl.
Pro Tip 3/3Tactile Experience
Emphasizing a sensory experience, 'squishy' often applies to objects kids like to touch.
The child was delighted by the squishy playdough.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Descriptor
Use 'squishy' to describe things with a soft, moldable texture, like some foods or materials.
I enjoy the squishy texture of marshmallows in my hot chocolate.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Squishy' can imply overripe or unpleasant texture when used with foods.
I avoided the squishy bananas at the bottom of the fruit bowl.
Pro Tip 3/3Tactile Experience
Emphasizing a sensory experience, 'squishy' often applies to objects kids like to touch.
The child was delighted by the squishy playdough.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Descriptor
Use 'squishy' to describe things with a soft, moldable texture, like some foods or materials.
I enjoy the squishy texture of marshmallows in my hot chocolate.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Squishy' can imply overripe or unpleasant texture when used with foods.
I avoided the squishy bananas at the bottom of the fruit bowl.
Pro Tip 3/3Tactile Experience
Emphasizing a sensory experience, 'squishy' often applies to objects kids like to touch.
The child was delighted by the squishy playdough.
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A new stock exchange...
so how will you hold them accountable I mean and so this isn't just some sort of squishy marketing message I mean will you be monitoring their how they update and how they I mean your are you are you making sure they're doing it yeah so accountability was really important to us and of course this is where you have
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
through kind of the rib area and and exposed those in inner um organs and there was quite a lot of sound and things which is probably quite good that we went on here because it was a bit sort of what the word is a bit rough i suppose in some respects it's not very nice when you hear all of those squishy sounds
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The strange story of the...
that I'm up here on this stage and I'm choosing to use my time to tell you about a 100-year-old story about the invention of a squishy kid's toy, but I'd argue that the invention of the teddy bear, inside that story is a more important story, a story about how dramatically our ideas about nature can change,
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Glow-in-the-dark sharks...
and we've been designing squishy underwater robot fingers, so we can delicately interact with the marine life down there. The idea is that most of our technologies to explore the deep ocean come from oil and gas and military, who, you know, they're not really caring to be gentle.
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Squishy Robot Fingers: A...
hands that he was using were meant for oil exploration and so they were basically just destroying everything that they touched so I said you know what we can make squishy fingers it's a nice grip not I think this is gonna work great this area here is one of the richest coral
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Safari Live - Day 322 PIPE...
liquid around the eyes around the tear ducts up your nose that gets a bit much at times when they do that and what you find is if you accidentally squash one which I'm afraid to say does happen because now you know you do that and all of a sudden there's a squishy little map
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From DNA to Silly Putty,...
Millions of tons of plastics are dumped into landfills every year. This plastic doesn't biodegrade, it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces, affecting marine life and eventually making their way back to humans. Polymers can be soft or hard, squishy or solid,
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Krista Tippett:...
has a problem. As essential as it is across our traditions, as real as so many of us know it to be in particular lives, the word "compassion" is hollowed out in our culture, and it is suspect in my field of journalism. It's seen as a squishy kumbaya thing,
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Army Ants, Orchids and...
and these are lovely beetles these are one of the few animals that form a monogamous pair they mate for life and they actually bury the rat together they roll up into a ball and transform it into a squishy mass and that's over to the
Video examples
Can you make a wildlife...
this bit here is like super squishy and i'll sit on that means i don't get sword we'll be doing planes buses four-wheel drives and when the road runs out we'll
Video examples
A new stock exchange...
so how will you hold them accountable I mean and so this isn't just some sort of squishy marketing message I mean will you be monitoring their how they update and how they I mean your are you are you making sure they're doing it yeah so accountability was really important to us and of course this is where you have
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
through kind of the rib area and and exposed those in inner um organs and there was quite a lot of sound and things which is probably quite good that we went on here because it was a bit sort of what the word is a bit rough i suppose in some respects it's not very nice when you hear all of those squishy sounds
Video examples
The strange story of the...
that I'm up here on this stage and I'm choosing to use my time to tell you about a 100-year-old story about the invention of a squishy kid's toy, but I'd argue that the invention of the teddy bear, inside that story is a more important story, a story about how dramatically our ideas about nature can change,
Video examples
Glow-in-the-dark sharks...
and we've been designing squishy underwater robot fingers, so we can delicately interact with the marine life down there. The idea is that most of our technologies to explore the deep ocean come from oil and gas and military, who, you know, they're not really caring to be gentle.
Video examples
Squishy Robot Fingers: A...
hands that he was using were meant for oil exploration and so they were basically just destroying everything that they touched so I said you know what we can make squishy fingers it's a nice grip not I think this is gonna work great this area here is one of the richest coral
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 322 PIPE...
liquid around the eyes around the tear ducts up your nose that gets a bit much at times when they do that and what you find is if you accidentally squash one which I'm afraid to say does happen because now you know you do that and all of a sudden there's a squishy little map
Video examples
From DNA to Silly Putty,...
Millions of tons of plastics are dumped into landfills every year. This plastic doesn't biodegrade, it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces, affecting marine life and eventually making their way back to humans. Polymers can be soft or hard, squishy or solid,
Video examples
Krista Tippett:...
has a problem. As essential as it is across our traditions, as real as so many of us know it to be in particular lives, the word "compassion" is hollowed out in our culture, and it is suspect in my field of journalism. It's seen as a squishy kumbaya thing,
Video examples
Army Ants, Orchids and...
and these are lovely beetles these are one of the few animals that form a monogamous pair they mate for life and they actually bury the rat together they roll up into a ball and transform it into a squishy mass and that's over to the
Video examples
Can you make a wildlife...
this bit here is like super squishy and i'll sit on that means i don't get sword we'll be doing planes buses four-wheel drives and when the road runs out we'll
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Quote examples
Jessica Nigri
American Entertainer
For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang and a time when the cosmic chemistry set had enough ingredients to make rocky planets (and squishy biology).
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Sandra E. Peterson
American Businesswoman
As a woman, this is one of these areas where you have to walk a fine line: the classic, 'Are you soft and squishy, and you hug everybody, and you're a cheerleader?' versus, 'Are you the hard-nosed you-know-what female dog?
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Mike Gallagher
American Critic
We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.
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Martin Freeman
English Actor
I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.
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Timothy Noah
American Journalist
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
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Carrie-Anne Moss
Canadian Actress
Even though I thought of myself as soft and squishy, I always had this great will and focus and was just so driven.
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Guy Fieri
American Businessman
Ripe avocados should be soft, not squishy, and you should be able to flick the little stem off easily.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
I'm not a squishy liberal Republican.
Quote examples
Jessica Nigri
American Entertainer
For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.
Quote examples
Henry Rollins
American Musician
Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang and a time when the cosmic chemistry set had enough ingredients to make rocky planets (and squishy biology).
Quote examples
Sandra E. Peterson
American Businesswoman
As a woman, this is one of these areas where you have to walk a fine line: the classic, 'Are you soft and squishy, and you hug everybody, and you're a cheerleader?' versus, 'Are you the hard-nosed you-know-what female dog?
Quote examples
Mike Gallagher
American Critic
We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.
Quote examples
Martin Freeman
English Actor
I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.
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Timothy Noah
American Journalist
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
Quote examples
Carrie-Anne Moss
Canadian Actress
Even though I thought of myself as soft and squishy, I always had this great will and focus and was just so driven.
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Guy Fieri
American Businessman
Ripe avocados should be soft, not squishy, and you should be able to flick the little stem off easily.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
I'm not a squishy liberal Republican.
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