squash
/skwɔʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
Uncountable
noun
A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "She plays squash every Saturday."
- "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."
- "The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman."
- "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."
- "It's a bit of a squash in this small room."
Etymology
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: squachen, esquacher, *excoāctiāre, ex, askutasquash
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skwɔʃ/
- British English: /skwɒʃ/