a. [f. SQUELCH sb. or v.]
1. Liable to squelch or to emit a squelching sound. Cf. SQUELCHING ppl. a. 2.
1843. [G. P. R. James], Commissioner: or De Lunatico Inq., 48. The peer was seen struggling to raise the squelchy rotundity of his abdomen over the wall.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 153. It is to be remembered that the squelchy stomachs, as I have called them,… of many neurasthenics may be taken for dilated organs.
2. Of sounds: = SQUELCHING ppl. a. 3.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 475. Squelchy sounds on manipulation are not certain signs of ectasis.
1904. Westm. Gaz., 4 Feb., 1/3. At each stamp his shoes had made a squelchy squeak.
