squozeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

squoze

1. (nonstandard, dialectal or humorous) simple past and past participle of squeeze
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

     Good Gawd, I've never felt a stop like that before. It was as though a rubber band had tightened and pulled us up against ten yards squoze into one, so that you didn't hardly know it.

   • 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, archived from the original on 16 June 2012:

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

   • 2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight, level/area: Village:

     bag fellow: head to the juice bar for fresh-squoze juice! morning, noon, or night!

使用する際の注意点

• 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

参考

• squeezed (standard form)
• squozen

アナグラム

• Zoques