squoze

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skwəʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /skwoʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz, -oʊz

squoze

1. (nonstandard, dialectal or humorous) simple past tense and past participle of squeeze
   • 1985 August 5, Ronald Reagan , retrieved 2020-10-22:

     I picked at it, and I squoze it and so forth and messed myself up a little bit.

   • 2009 March 9, John DeNardo, “SF Signal Welcomes Pete Tzinski”, in SF Signal‎, retrieved 2012-09-18:

     Just when you think we squoze (yes, that’s a word) the blogosphere dry,

   • 2021 January 27, JP Bonner, “Is the Squeeze Squoze Yet?”, in IsTheSqueezeSquoze‎, retrieved 2021-01-29:

     Is the squeeze squoze? As of January 29, the squeeze has not been squoze.

• 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.

  squoze 'n froze

• Squoze is commonly used when the object of the verb is a squeeze.

• squeezed (standard form)
• squozen

• Zoques