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noun

Squab n.

(Zool.) A nestling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.

A person of a short, fat figure. "Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan."

A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa. "Punching the squab of chairs and sofas." "On her large squab you find her spread."

verb

Squab v. i. To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. (Obs.)

adjective

Squab adj.

Fat; thick; plump; bulky. "Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice."

Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.

adverb

Squab adv. With a heavy fall; plump. (Vulgar) "The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock."

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Etymology of 'Squab'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squab" Quotes from Famous Books

... eggs still, and squab-young. The last swift I observed was about the twenty-first of August; it was ...

— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White

... and loud was the harping in the halls of Alef the Cornishman, King of Gweek. Savory was the smell of fried pilchard and hake; more savory still that of roast porpoise; most savory of all that of fifty huge squab pies, built up of layers of apples, bacon, onions, and mutton, and at the bottom of each a squab, or young cormorant, which diffused both through the pie and through the ambient air a delicate odor of mingled guano and polecat. And the occasion was worthy alike of the smell and of ...

— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... cook that oily bird so's it would taste like a pet squab. He used to take a pride in it, too, an' he liked best the men who ate most. Now I was real popular with Cookie. Those were the days for eats!" and the light-keeper ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... in a dark nook stood an old broken-bottomed cane couch, without a squab, or coverlid, sunk at one corner, and unmortised by the failing of one of its worm-eater legs, which lay in two pieces under the wretched piece of furniture it could ...

— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson

... reflexions on Pope's Essay on Criticism, he uses the following unmannerly epithets. 'A young squab, short gentleman, whose outward form tho' it should be that of a downright monkey, would not differ so much from human shape, as his unthinking, immaterial part does from human understanding.—He is as stupid and as venomous as an hunch-backed ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber

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