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the sound your shoes make when dignity drowns in mud.
means To squelch is to make the soft, wet sucking sound of feet or fingers pressing into mud or anything soggy — or, by extension, to crush or silence something firmly and completely.
from An English word of imitative birth — it simply sounds like what it means, the mouth mimicking the suck and slap of boot leaving bog. It surfaced around the 17th century, a cousin of other squishy, squelchy 'squ-' words (squash, squish, squirt) that English keeps inventing whenever it needs to name a wet noise. The figurative sense — to squelch a rumor, a rebellion, a hope — grew naturally from the literal one: to squelch something is to stamp it flat into the mud.
- electrical job
- silences radio static between transmissions
- old roots
- likely imitates the noise it names
- double duty
- means both a wet sound and crushing dissent
- verb power
- to squelch is to flatten utterly
squelch pedal — electronic device used by guitarists to mute strings, popularized by eddie van halen in the 1980s
squelch circuit — radio receiver feature that silences output between transmissions, standard in walkie-talkies and cb radios since the 1960s