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skoosh¹

  • /skuːʃ/

Rhymes with -uːʃ, -oʊʃ

Where it comes from

Apparently imitative of a squirting or squishing sound.

noun skooshes

  1. Scotland, informal A squirt (of liquid). But Mrs Strain ducked and dodged and weaved, keeping the bucket steady between her feet and managing to give the two or three cats running about the place a skoosh of milk straight from the udder into their mouth.
  2. Scotland, informal Something very easy; a piece of cake. After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.

verb skooshes · skooshing · skooshed

  1. Scotland, informal To squirt. Untouchable. I am untouchable. I cannot touch. But in these other states, I am the citizen of many nations. To that woman on holiday in Millport many, many years ago, I am that cheeky wee boy who skooshed her in the face with my water pistol […]
  2. informal To squish, to smoosh. Eternal Returnists believe that after you die you must return as every fly you ever swatted, every ant you ever skooshed, every mosquito, every spider, every animal you ever roared over on the highway with your Harley, whether you knew it or not […]
  3. Scotland, informal To have an easy time.

skoosh²

Where it comes from

Variant of skosh.

noun skooshes

  1. informal A smidge, a small amount. […] his wife, who might have outweighed him by forty pounds, wore a cut-off sweatshirt over a red blouse, and what seemed to be men's Levis, cut with a bit more than "a skoosh more room," as the ads say.

    Similar: skosh, scooch, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental, bit, crumb, glimpse

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@misc{skoosh_2026,
  title = {skoosh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/skoosh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}