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Definition of 'squab'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A baby pigeon or dove.
The meat of a squab (i.e. a young (domestic) pigeon or dove) used as food.
A baby rook.
A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
* (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia'', 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), ''A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain , page 86 ,
- On her large ?quab you find her ?pread, / Like a fat corp?e upon a bed, / That lies and ?tinks in ?tate.
* (rfdate)
- Punching the squab of chairs and sofas.
A person of a short, fat figure.
* , The Progress of Error'', 1824, ''Poems of William Cowper, Esq , page 28 ,
- Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:
Synonyms
* (baby pigeon) piper, squeaker, pigeon chick, young pigeon, baby dove
* (baby rook) rook chick, young rook
Verb
(squabb)
(obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
Adjective
( en-adj)
Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
* (rfdate) Betterton
- Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
Unfledged; unfeathered.
- a squab pigeon
- (King)
Adverb
( -)
(slang) With a heavy fall; plump.
* (rfdate) L'Estrange
- The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab , upon a rock.
( Webster 1913)
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