squab
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
squab (plural squabs)
- (sometimes, attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken.
- The meat of such a baby bird used as food.
- A baby rook.
- A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
- ante 1744 Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86 ↗,
- On her large ſquab you find her ſpread, / Like a fat corpſe upon a bed, / That lies and ſtinks in ſtate.
Charles Dickens - Punching the squab of chairs and sofas.
- ante 1744 Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86 ↗,
- A person of a short, fat figure.
- ante 1800 William Cowper, 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:
- ante 1800 William Cowper, The Progress of Error, 1824, Poems of William Cowper, Esq, page 28 ↗,
- (baby pigeon) piper, squeaker, pigeon chick, young pigeon, baby dove
- (baby rook) rook chick, young rook
- French: pigeonneau, colombeau, colombelle
- German: Jungtaube
- Portuguese: borracho
- Russian: голубо́к
- Spanish: pichón, palomino
- French: pigeonneau
- German: Täubchen, Täubchenfleisch
- Portuguese: borracho
- Russian: голубя́тина
- Portuguese: coxim
- Russian: поду́шка
squab (squabs, present participle squabbing; past and past participle squabbed)
- (obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
- (transitive) To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
- (transitive) To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.
squab
- Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
Betterton - Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
- Unfledged; unfeathered.
- a squab pigeon
- Clumsy.
- Curt; abrupt.
- Shy; coy.
squab (not comparable)
- (slang) With a heavy fall; plump.
L'Estrange - The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.
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