squoze
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skwəʊz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /skwoʊz/
Verb
squoze
- (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of squeeze
- 1985, Ronald Reagan
- I picked at it, and I squoze it and so forth and messed myself up a little bit.
- 1985, Ronald Reagan
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.
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