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🫙 To crush flat 😊 To press gently 🍯 A soft mass
smoosh

smoosh

1 8.3
A soft, sticky mass made when something is pressed
  • noun
  • /smuːʃ/
  • Informal
translation icon : masa blanda
  • The children played in the mud, creating a smoosh of different colors.

Examples

  • When I opened the bag, I found a smoosh of old, crushed snacks inside.

  • He's got a great line of smoosh and he knows the oil business.

    Boom Town (1940)

  • The sky, the sea, and the land were all jumbled up in one big smoosh.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • When you see Paynter again, Steve, please give him a smoosh and hug from me! "Human up" people, Mr. Zayat is one of the good guys ...

    Blog text (14)

  • After the fall, I picked up a smoosh of clay that had formed on the ground.

Synonyms

smush
vssmoosh
1 8.6

A soft messy mass of crushed or mashed things

focuses on a mass created by pressing or crushing

Antonyms

solid
325 1.0

Firm and hard so it keeps its shape, not liquid

rigid
35 4.0

Does not bend because it is stiff

How Squashed

mash
36 4.3
smoosh
  • Informal
1 8.3
paste
68 1.0
lump
77 2.0

Surface Forms

smoosh singular
smooshes plural

Etymology

Smoosh comes from a playful sound that copies the noise you make when something soft is pressed, and it feels like words such as squash and mash. So a smoosh is a soft, shapeless mass formed when something is pressed or crushed.