Skoosh

/skuːʃ/ · noun

Meaning

(informal, chiefly Scotland) A squirt (of liquid)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal, chiefly Scotland) A squirt (of liquid).
2. (informal, chiefly Scotland) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
3. (informal, chiefly Scotland) To squirt.
4. (informal) To squish, to smoosh.
5. (informal, chiefly Scotland) To have an easy time.
6. (informal) A smidge, a small amount.

Example Sentences

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.

1 pint of filtered water 2 dessert spoons of sugar (or honey) 4 nobs of butter (or one big lump) 1 big skoosh of lemon juice, hand squeezed 6 large free range eggs.

After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.

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 […]

She positions herself in the middle of each room, then sprays every surface as if she's Lara Croft holding one of those paintball guns. By the time I've mopped up all the puddles of polish she's skooshed on Mum's good furniture, […]

She shut the doors, covered the food and then skooshed DDT at them. That killed them all and we were choked but fly-free for a few minutes. I have no doubt Mrs Low's was the healthier option - however grotesque it may have been.

She skooshed some foam from a spray can onto her hand and applied it to her hair. "What's that?" said Gerry. "Styling mousse."

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 […]

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• skooshes
• skooshing
• skooshed

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