squash – English noun declension

English noun forms of squash

Noun: squash
Singularsquash
Pluralsquashes; squash

Sample 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. [1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:]
  • The bat, as a racquet used to be called, is the chief tool of the squash tradesman. [2007, James Zug, Squash: A History of the Game, Scribner, →ISBN, page 1:]
  • Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here. [2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4]
  • 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.
  • 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. [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 Jul 2015]

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). See: Latin Nouns 'ex'.

Verbs referencing "squash"

Dutch Nouns squash, Finnish Nouns squash, French Nouns squash, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns squash, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns squash, Catalan Nouns esquaix, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns skvåsj, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns skvåsj, Icelandic Nouns skvass, Russian Nouns сквош.