The phrase "a squish" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a soft, compressible object or a feeling of being squeezed or pressed.
Example: "I love the feeling of a squish when I step on a soft, ripe fruit."
Alternatives: "a squeeze" or "a squelch".
(My favorite moment: his account of snacking on insect hors d'oeuvres -- Some of the bugs made a crisp crunching sound; others... went down with a squish").
The Ogre's hand grabs up a squish of townspeople hiding under a table; his massive boots dwarf a distant village; the underbrush in the woods and the hairs on his arms are explosively alive.
Jaloe grabbed her long hair with his left hand, feeling a squish of mud and water in his fist, and he hooked his right arm under her left shoulder, lifting her aboard.
Mr Romney's desperate, almost lunatic jingoism keeps him in the running, but the suspicion that he is a squish on zygote murder and gay nuptials, in addition to his membership in a weird, made-up religion, keeps American-authenticity conservatives casting about for a better champion.
When the Cold War faded and Reagan was replaced by the first George Bush — who ran for President on hard-right themes but governed as what the conservatives called a "squish," thereby earning their scornful indifference — the movement, leaderless but disciplined and well organized, was left to its own devices.
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Squirrelly behavior and a squished goldfish.
We spotted Chloe Sevigny in a squished boater a couple of weeks ago.
Accompanied by a squishing sound, he stands up as if to say goodbye.
Day has a squished blank smeared flat face, one requiring great effort to like, and eyes that are just starting to lose the nictitated glaze of early sobriety.
The film is thinking of Nicholas Hawksmoor's London churches, the locations of which can be said to form a squished five-pointed star, if you conveniently forget the one in Greenwich.
