squatter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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
English -er
English squatter
From squat + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: squatters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who squats; one who sits down idly.
pos: noun
examples: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
gloss: One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
historical
examples: While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters, eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land.
gloss: One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: A large-scale grazier and landowner.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
historical
examples: Down came the squatter, a'riding his thoroughbred, / Down came policemen, one, two and three. /'Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker bag? / You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.'
Boldrewood was a squatter, a magistrate and a commissioner of goldfields and knew thoroughly the life he described in Robbery Under Arms (1888), the story of the bushranger Captain Starlight—first serialised in The Sydney Mail in 1881—and in his numerous other novels, which included The Squatter′s Dream (1890).
In Parliament, at least, the squatters were secure. ¶ In the early 1840s a severe depression threatened livelihoods in all the colonies except South Australia and many squatters resorted to slaughtering their sheep and boiling them down for tallow.
His dealings with squatter R. R. McBean and superintendents Hare and Nicolson amaze the 16-year-old, who has little experience with the wealthy privileged class.
gloss: A squat toilet.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters.
Derived words: antisquatter
cybersquatter
squatter camp
squatterdom
squattering
squatterism
websquatter
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: незаконно заселил се
roman: nezakonno zaselil se
lang: Catalan
word: ocupa
lang: Catalan
word: okupa
lang: Dutch
word: kraker
lang: Dutch
word: kraakster
lang: Dutch
word: occupant
lang: French
word: squatter
lang: Galician
word: okupa
lang: German
word: Hausbesetzer
lang: German
word: Mietnomade
lang: German
word: Landbesetzer
lang: Greek
word: καταληψίας
roman: katalipsías
lang: Ido
word: squatter
lang: Indonesian
word: penghuni liar
lang: Italian
word: abusivo
lang: Italian
word: occupatore abusivo
lang: Latin
word: agripeta
lang: Malay
word: setinggan
lang: Māori
word: kainoho kōkuhu
lang: Polish
word: squatter
lang: Polish
word: dziki lokator
lang: Portuguese
word: okupa
lang: Russian
word: скво́ттер
roman: skvóttɛr
lang: Spanish
word: paracaidista
lang: Spanish
word: okupa
lang: Spanish
word: ocupante / ocupador ilícito
lang: Swedish
word: husockupant
lang: Swedish
word: ockupant
lang: Turkish
word: toprak-konducu