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单词 squash
释义

squash

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /skwɒʃ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /skwɔʃ/
  • (US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /skwɑʃ/
  • (rural US, intrusive r) IPA(key): /skwɔɹʃ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Etymology 1

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).

Noun

A game of squash

squash (countable and uncountable, plural squashes)

  1. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:
      Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
  2. (Britain) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
    • 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:
      Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
    When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
  3. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
    It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
  4. (biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.[1]
    Synonym: smear
  5. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
  6. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) Something unripe or soft.
  7. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
  8. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
    • Orr, James (18 August 2014), “WWE SummerSlam 2014: How Twitter reacted to John Cena vs Brock Lesnar”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, The Independent, retrieved 30 July 2015
      It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:squash.
Derived terms
  • orange squash
  • squashable
  • squash ball
  • squash court
  • squash player
  • squash racket
  • quash
Descendants
  • → Catalan: esquaix
  • → Czech: squash
  • → Dutch: kwast
    • Afrikaans: kwas
  • → Finnish: squash
  • → French: squash
  • → Japanese: スカッシュ (sukasshu)
  • → Korean: 스쿼시 (seukwosi)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: squash
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: squash
  • → Polish: squash
  • → Portuguese: squash
  • → Russian: сквош (skvoš)
  • → Swedish: squash
Translations
soft drink — see cordial
See also
  • racketball

Verb

squash (third-person singular simple present squashes, present participle squashing, simple past and past participle squashed)

  1. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
    Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
    We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
  3. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
    • 2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, →ISBN, page 390:
      A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:squash.
Synonyms
  • (to compress): condense, press; see also Thesaurus:compress
Derived terms
  • squash up
  • squashy
  • squish
Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of Narragansett askutasquash (“[a vegetable] eaten green (or raw)”), from askut (“green, raw”) +‎ asquash (“eaten”).[2]

Noun

Varieties of squash

squash (countable and uncountable, plural squash or squashes)

  1. (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
    1. Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
    2. Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
    3. Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
    4. Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
  2. (botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
    1. Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
  3. (cooking) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
    We ate squash and green beans.
Hyponyms
  • pumpkin
Derived terms
  • acorn squash
  • opo squash (Lagenaria spp.)
  • squash beetle (Epilachna borealis)
  • squash bug (Coreidae)
  • summer squash
  • winter squash
Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of musquash.

Noun

squash (plural squashes)

  1. (obsolete, countable) Muskrat.
    • 1705, William Dampier, A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World
      The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.

Further reading

  • squash at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • squash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Cucurbita on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Cucurbita on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

  1. Edwin Benzel Steen, Dictionary of Biology, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971.
  2. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “squash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Czech

Etymology

From English squash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈskvoʃ]
  • Rhymes: -oʃ

Noun

squash m

  1. squash

Derived terms

  • squashista

Further reading

  • squash in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Finnish

Etymology

From English squash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskuɑs/, [ˈs̠kuɑs̠]
  • IPA(key): /ˈskuɑʃ/, [ˈs̠kuɑʃ]
  • Syllabification(key): squ‧ash

Noun

squash

  1. (sports) squash
    Synonym: kössi

Declension

Inflection of squash (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominativesquashsquashit
genitivesquashinsquashien
partitivesquashiasquasheja
illativesquashiinsquasheihin
singularplural
nominativesquashsquashit
accusativenom.squashsquashit
gen.squashin
genitivesquashinsquashien
partitivesquashiasquasheja
inessivesquashissasquasheissa
elativesquashistasquasheista
illativesquashiinsquasheihin
adessivesquashillasquasheilla
ablativesquashiltasquasheilta
allativesquashillesquasheille
essivesquashinasquasheina
translativesquashiksisquasheiksi
instructive—squashein
abessivesquashittasquasheitta
comitative—squasheineen
Possessive forms of squash (type risti)
possessorsingularplural
1st personsquashinisquashimme
2nd personsquashisisquashinne
3rd personsquashinsa

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English squash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skwaʃ/

Noun

squash m (plural squashs)

  1. (sports) (uncountable) squash
    Jouer au squash.
  2. squash game
    On s'est fait deux squashs aujourd'hui.
  3. squash court
    La ville a construit trois squashs municipaux.

Further reading

  • “squash”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • skvåsj

Etymology

Borrowed from English squash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skʋɔʂ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔʂ

Noun

squash m (definite singular squashen, indefinite plural squasher, definite plural squashene)

  1. squash (fruit)
  2. squash (sport)
  3. squash (soft drink)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • skvåsj

Etymology

Borrowed from English squash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skʋɔʂ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔʂ

Noun

squash m (definite singular squashen, indefinite plural squashar, definite plural squashane)

  1. squash (fruit)
  2. squash (sport)
  3. squash (soft drink)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English squash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skwɔʂ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔʂ
  • Syllabification: squash

Noun

squash m inan

  1. squash (sport)

Declension

Declension of squash
singular
nominativesquash
genitivesquasha
dativesquashowi
accusativesquasha
instrumentalsquashem
locativesquashu
vocativesquashu

Further reading

  • squash in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • squash in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English squash.

Noun

squash m (uncountable)

  1. squash (sport)

Further reading

  • “squash” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Slovak

Etymology

From English squash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [skvoʃ]

Noun

squash m (genitive singular squashu, declension pattern of stroj)

  1. squash (sport)

Declension

Declension of squash
singulare tantum
nominativesquash
genitivesquashu
dativesquashu
accusativesquash
locativesquashi
instrumentalsquashom

Derived terms

  • squashový

Further reading

  • squash in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
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