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Example sentences for: squash
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As an experienced practitioner of paddle tennis, squash, badminton, platform tennis, etc., over the past twenty years I have become convinced that a revised nomenclature for racquet sports is in order.
But perhaps some consideration should be given to separating squash racquets more precisely from those games from which it derives and with which it is often confused.
For example, serviette, scone, sheila, sister, Smarties, spanner, spot on, squash, starkers , just to pick a handful, are Briticisms; although the author makes that clear, it seems odd that the words and expressions that are direct borrowings from British English are not individually identified as such.
Any way you slice it, the Earl of Sandwich was responsible, but only two of the three examples fit the Slurvian rule of swallow and squash.
I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).