See Also: squish(dictionary)
squish(dictionary)
squish-squash(dictionary)
Tight money or dear money(finance)
Money(medicine)
big money(dictionary)
On the money(money)
New money(finance)
e-money(dictionary)
Pin Money(money)

Lend (money) and squish (iou)


Lend (money)


Definition: [crh] To provide money temporarily on the condition that it or its equivalent will be returned, often with an interest fee.







squish (iou)



squish verb & noun. M17.
[Imit.]
A. verb.
verb trans. Squeeze, squash. Now dial. & colloq. M17.
C. Lassalle This elephant had trodden on its keeper's head. 'Squished..like a tomato,' she explained.
verb intrans. Make a gushing or splashing sound when walked in or on, yield easily to pressure thus when squeezed or squashed; gush up, squirt out. L18.
G. Benford Melting snow..squished under his boots.
b. verb trans. & intrans. Make (one's way) with a squishing sound. colloq. M20.
b. noun.
Marmalade. arch. slang. L19.
A squishing sound. E20.
Engineering. In some internal-combustion engines, the forced radial flow of the fuel mixture into the combustion chamber as the piston approaches the cylinder head. Freq. attrib. M20.
Linguistics. A continuum or linear progression held to exist between categories (esp. parts of speech) usu. considered discrete. L20.
? As noun recorded earlier in SQUISH-SQUASH.