squoze

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skwəʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /skwoʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz, -oʊz

Verb

squoze

1. (nonstandard, dialectal or humorous) simple past and past participle of squeeze
   • 1985 August 5, Ronald Reagan [1], retrieved 2020-10-22:

     I picked at it, and I squoze it and so forth and messed myself up a little bit.

   • 2009 March 9, John DeNardo, “SF Signal Welcomes Pete Tzinski”, in SF Signal‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 June 2012:

     Just when you think we squoze (yes, that’s a word) the blogosphere dry,

Usage notes

• Squoze is apparently the most common of a number of dialectal variants of the past tense of squeeze. It is attested in both British and American dialect: The OED Supplement shows it in American English since 1844.

  squoze 'n froze

• Squoze is commonly used when the object of the verb is a squeeze.

See also

• squeezed (standard form)
• squozen

Anagrams

• Zoques