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squattle - What does it mean?

Definition of 'squattle'

English

Verb

(squattl)
  • (Scotland) To squat or sprawl; to duck into concealment.
  • * 1821 , John Galt, Annals of the parish: or, the chronicle of Dalmailing (page 56)
  • They tarried about a week among us, living in tents, with their little ones squattling among the litter
  • * 1877 , John Timbs, James Mason, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art (page 46)
  • Whenever they got to the water they threw themselves down and squattled into it. The moment they were in the water they acted just as if they were fishes.
  • * 1900 , Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Dariel: A Romance of Surrey (page 425)
  • He spread his face out in such a manner that there was nothing left but mouth; as a young cuckoo in a sparrow's nest, when his stepmother cannot satisfy him, squattles his empty body down, and distends himself into one enormous gape.