squash
/skwɒʃ/ · noun
Meaning
- A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
- A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- Something unripe or soft.
- A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
- To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
- To suppress; to force into submission.
- The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
- A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
- Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
- Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
- Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
- Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
- Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
- Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
- The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- Muskrat.
- A surname
Etymology / origin
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
- ex-(Latin)→
- *exquassare(la-vul)→
- esquasser(fro)→
- quashen(enm)→
- ex(Latin)→
- *excoāctiāre(la-vul)→
- esquacher(fro)→
- squachen(enm)→
- squash (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, der, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
squachen(enm)esquacher(fro)*excoāctiāre(la-vul)ex(Latin)quashen(enm)esquasser(fro)*exquassare(la-vul)ex-(Latin)squash(Basque)скуош(Bulgarian)esquaix(Catalan)squash(Dutch)squash(Finnish)squash(French)skvass(Icelandic)スカッシュ(Japanese)сквош(Kazakh)스쿼시(Korean)skvåsj(Norwegian Bokmål)squash(Norwegian Bokmål)skvåsj(Norwegian Nynorsk)squash(Norwegian Nynorsk)сквош(Russian)
Descendant words
- squash(Basque) (bor)
- скуош(Bulgarian) (bor)
- esquaix(Catalan) (bor)
- squash(Dutch) (bor)
- squash(Finnish) (bor)
- squash(French) (bor)
- skvass(Icelandic) (bor)
- スカッシュ(Japanese) (bor)
- сквош(Kazakh) (der)
- 스쿼시(Korean) (bor)
- skvåsj(Norwegian Bokmål) (bor)
- squash(Norwegian Bokmål) (bor)
- skvåsj(Norwegian Nynorsk) (bor)
- squash(Norwegian Nynorsk) (bor)
- сквош(Russian) (bor)
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