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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1817-1868
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SQUASH, v., n. Sc. usages:
I. v. 1. To splash, dash water around (Lnk. 1825 Jam.). Obs. exc. dial. in Eng.Per. 1868 in R. M. Fergusson Village Poet (1897) 155:
Thus ye flaff an' squash an' sputter Mair filth than I wid like to utter.
2. To fall heavily into water.Peb. 1817 R. Brown Comic Poems 69:
Into the hole bumbaz'd he squash'd Like stane into a pot.
II. n. A dash of water; the act of splashing; the sound made by an object falling into water (Lnk. 1825 Jam.). Also in Eng. dial.Sc. 1826 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) I. 228:
Tak haud o' the string very gently, for the least rug 'ill bring down the squash like the Falls of the Clyde.
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