[f. as prec.]
1. dial. Unusually big; burly.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v., A great squelching-man.
a. 1904. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Warw., Hants.).
2. That squelches under treading or pressure; emitting a squelchy sound.
1869. ‘Wat Bradwood’ [F. B. Woodgate], The O. V. H., I. xii. 210. The soil was rather holding and squelching.
1894. Jane Barlow, Kerrigan’s Qual., 110. He stepped up in his squelching brogues.
1895. K. Grahame, Golden Age, 14. I dug glad heels into the squelching soil.
3. Of sounds: Of the nature of a squelch; suggestive of squelching.
1881. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., V. 177. When removed from the water they emit a peculiar ‘squelching’ noise.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 5 May, 4/2. Portions are dabbed on the plates with a slapping, squelching sound.
4. Crushing; squashing.
1885. New Bk. Sports, 123. A straight downward blow, is delivered with a peculiarly ‘squelching’ effect.
