SQUASHとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by 中期英語 quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).

名詞

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.

   She plays squash every Saturday.

   • 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.

   • 2007, James Zug, Squash: A History of the Game‎, Scribner, →ISBN, page 1:

     The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman.

2. A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.

   Synonyms: cordial, (uncommon) high juice

   • 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.

   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 book title or journal name)‎, 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.

派生語

関連する語

• quash

派生した語

参考

• racketball

動詞

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.

同意語

• (to compress): condense, press; see also Thesaurus:compress

派生語

• squash the beef
• squash up
• squashy
• squish

間投詞

squash

1. (obsolete) The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
   • 1848, The Lotus, page 40:

     […] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step, I went squash! squash! up to the tops of my boots, and many times very extent, stretching to the eastward,  […]

   • 1881, Frederick Lancelot H. Morrice, The Nightless North: A Walk Across Lapland, page 74:

     […] to catch all the rain […] ; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road, […]

   • 2001, Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Struggle for Apacheria. volume one, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 355:

     1883, May 5 […] The words had only left his mouth when his feet slipped from under him, and with a dull, sickening thud, he went squash! into the water, waist-deep. We made our way to bed in a silence that was painful.

参照

• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SQUASH”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.: "The sound of a heavy body falling into water; the act of splashing; a dash of water; a heavy fall of rain."

語源 2

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

名詞

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.

下位語

• pumpkin

派生語

語源 3

Clipping of musquash.

名詞

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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• squash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cucurbita on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cucurbita on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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