squat
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Old French es-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin co-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin cōgō
Latin coāctusder.
Old French quatir
Old French esquatirder.
Middle English squatten
English squat
From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” is synchronically analyzable as a clipping of diddly-squat, although diachronically the direction of derivation is uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: squatter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: squattest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: squats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
pos: adj
examples: The SQUILL-INSECT. […] So called from ſome ſimilitude to the Squill-fiſh: chiefly, in having a long Body cover'd with a Cruſt compoſed of ſeveral Rings or Plates. The Head is broad and ſquat. He hath a pair of notable ſharp Fangs before, both hooked inward like a Bulls horns.
What in the midst lay but the Tower itself? / The round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart, / Built of round stone, without a counterpart / In the whole world. […]
On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges […]
gloss: Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
pos: adj
examples: [H]im there they found, / Squat like a toad, cloſe at the ear of Eve, / Aſſaying by his deviliſh art to reach / The organs of her fancy', and with them forge / Illuſions as he liſt, phantaſms and dreams, […]
gloss: To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
pos: verb
examples: He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.
gloss: To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
pos: verb
gloss: To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
pos: verb
examples: For those who are having, or have had, trouble squatting we suggest learning how to squat by performing the front squat […] The front squat allows you almost no alternative but to perform the exercise correctly.
gloss: To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
pos: verb
examples: Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.
gloss: To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
pos: verb
examples: "But there seemed to be little satisfaction got out of this run; every moment the hare squatted, and the hounds lost the scent time after time."
gloss: To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To cybersquat.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: The old homepage for L2TP, www.l2tpd.org, has been squatted by a domain squatter. A malicious person could reinstate this domain with malicious code on it.
gloss: To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: I can't believe they squatted my favorite faction!
Related words: cache
coagulate
cogent
Derived words: absquatulate
air squat
Anderson squat
Asian squat
asquat
belt squat
bottoms up squat
box squat
breathing squat
Bulgarian split squat
count for squat
deep squat
flamingo squat
front squat
goblet squat
hack squat
Hindu squat
hot squat
jack squat
jockey squat
jump squat
outsquat
overhead squat
pin squat
pistol squat
plié squat
pop a squat
safety squat
shrimp squat
sissy squat
Slav squat
Smith squat
split squat
squat cage
squat effect
squat lobster
squatly
squatment
squatness
squat pad
squat rack
squat snipe
squat sponge
squat switch
squattage
squatter
squat thrust
squatting
squattish
squattle
squattocracy
squat toilet
squatty
Steinborn squat
sumo squat
Zercher squat
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