squishy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
gaming
government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English squish
English -y
English squishy
From squish + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: squishier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: squishiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: squishie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
noun
form: squishies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squishie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
noun
Senses:
gloss: Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: The toy was soft and squishy, making it fun to squeeze.
The mud was squishy underfoot after the rainstorm.
I love how squishy the pillow is—it’s so comfortable to sleep on.
Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).
gloss: Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
pos: adj
tags: especially
literally
examples: Finished with head and hair, the women pulled her up the bank to wash her body, the soft squishy mud registering for the first time on the outer consciousness of Isabelle’s mind.
gloss: Subjective or vague.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.
gloss: Politically moderate.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
figuratively
gloss: Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Yeah, I’m, like, freaking tissue paper here. Come get the mage, everyone. Pick on the poor squishy mage!
Telling your healers how well they kept people alive when a battle was difficult is important; or, what a great job your thief did in disarming the traps to get to the raid; clapping your warriors on their backs for maintaining aggro (i.e., keeping the monster targeting them rather than “squishy” mages) or applauding the sorcerers who unloaded incredible amounts of damage.
What this tells us is that, against PCs equipped to confront a drow shadowblade, a single round's Multiattack is unlikely to deliver a one-hit kill – not unless the target is a squishy wizard or sorcerer.
gloss: Making a squish sound.
pos: adj
examples: Those darling, squishy little footsteps...Is that you, Punio?
gloss: A squeezable stress reliever, especially one made of foam.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A term of endearment.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “It’s going to be fine,” Mother said in her soothing motherly voice. “Is it?” I whispered. “Yes squishy Josh, it will,” she motherlily soothed me.
Derived words: squishily
squishiness
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 濕軟 /湿软
roman: shīruǎn
lang: Czech
word: blátivý
lang: Czech
word: naměklý
lang: Czech
word: měkký
lang: Finnish
word: vetelä
lang: Finnish
word: lötkö
lang: Finnish
word: löysä
lang: Finnish
word: veltto
lang: French
word: mou
lang: French
word: spongieux
lang: French
word: visqueux
lang: German
word: weichlich
lang: German
word: nachgebend
lang: German
word: watschig
lang: German
word: pratschig
lang: German
word: matschig
lang: German
word: schwabbelig
lang: Hindi
word: गुदगुदा
roman: gudgudā
lang: Māori
word: tāhōhō
lang: Māori
word: tāromiromi
lang: Portuguese
word: mole
lang: Portuguese
word: macio
lang: Russian
word: пода́тливый
roman: podátlivyj
lang: Spanish
word: blando
lang: Spanish
word: fungoso
lang: Spanish
word: hongoso
lang: Swedish
word: geggig