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Bob squash is London Cockney rhyming slang for wash.
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n cordial; diluted fruit drink. It’s a little outdated - you’d be more likely to find your grandmother offering you “lemon squash” than you would your children. The vegetable that Americans call a “squash,” Brits call a “marrow.”
n squash. The vegetable.
When a surfer or skater gets "whipped" by a heavy wave or bad spill, he is said to have mongolated. It must have something to do with squashing of the facial features. Contributor lives on North Strabroke Island, Qld (perm pop approx 3000). There are three small communities on the island - Point Lookout (surfing) Amity Point (fishing) and Dunwich (rugby league and sand mining)- and all have sub-dialects which meet at the 280 pupil school. (ed: That was all left in as an advert for Australia, which fully deserves it's nickname of Godsown Country)
Orange squash is British rhyming slang for money (dosh).
Refers in an insulting manner to a 'first year' at school. Probably comes from squashing together "fresh herring" originally but nobody seems to know for sure. This might be specific to King Edward's School, Birmingham UK as I've never heard of it used elsewhere. A good word though I think. (ed: indeed it is... got any more?)
n 1 (abbr. of “Macintosh”) light waterproof jacket which can usually be squashed up into an impressively small size for packing away. Possibly derived from the name of the gentleman who worked out how to infuse rubber and cloth. Americans call the same sort of thing a “slicker.” 2 buddy: Are you alright Mac? The two meanings appear together in the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band’s song “Big Shot,” which features the lines: On the way home a punk stopped me: “You got a light, mac?” / I said “No, but I’ve got a dark brown overcoat.”
Squot is Dorset slang for flattened, squashed.
A popular and easy to grow vegetable similar to squash
Squidgey is slang for feeling soft, squashy or soggy.
Lemon squash is London Cockney rhyming slang for wash.
Adj. Feeling soft, squashy or soggy. E.g. "I think the ground's a little too squidgey for cricket today." {Informal}
Squashed is American slang for intoxicated, drunk.
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The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.
imp. & p. p.
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v. i.
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
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Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
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Easily squashed; soft.
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A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
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Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
n.
Same as Squash.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Squash
v. t.
To crush; to quash; to squash.
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A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.
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One who, or that which, squashes.
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Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
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A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
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A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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An American animal allied to the weasel.
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