squishy

Etymology

From squish + -y.

adj

1. (of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud.
   Finished with head and hair, the women pulled her up the bank to wash her body, the soft squishy mud registering for the first time on the outer consciousness of Isabelle’s mind. 2009, Jamie Carie, Wind Dancer, B&H Publishing Group, page 144
   Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves). 2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How
2. (slang) Used as a term of endearment.
3. (informal) Subjective or vague.
   How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages. April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair
4. (politics, informal, derogatory) Politically moderate.

noun

1. (informal) A squeezable foam toy.