squab
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: squabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squabs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squabbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squabbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squabbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more squab
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most squab
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A fledgling (young) bird.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: A fledgling (young) bird.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: A fledgling (young) bird.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.
gloss: A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a. 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.
[H]erds of shabby vampires, Jew and Christian, over-run the house, [...] punching the squabs of chairs and sofas with their dirty fists, touzling the feather-beds, opening and shutting all the drawers, balancing the silver spoons and forks, looking into the very threads of the drapery and linen, and disparaging everything.
Another feature new to British Railways is the provision of two-position adjustable seats in the first class compartments. In this design, the seat squab can be pulled out some six inches, the seat back being attached to the seat to give a less upright sitting position.
gloss: A person of a short, fat figure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:
gloss: To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
pos: adj
examples: Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
So on his Nightmare through the evening fog / Flits the squab fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog […].
gloss: Unfledged; unfeathered.
pos: adj
examples: broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons precipitated from above
gloss: Clumsy.
pos: adj
gloss: Curt; abrupt.
pos: adj
gloss: Shy; coy.
pos: adj
gloss: With a heavy fall; plump.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.
Derived words: squabbish
squabby
squab chick
squabness
squab pie
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乳鴿肉 /乳鸽肉
roman: rǔgēròu
lang: Esperanto
word: kolombidaĵo
lang: Esperanto
word: kolombidoviando
lang: Finnish
word: kyyhkysenliha
lang: French
word: pigeonneau
lang: German
word: Täubchen
lang: German
word: Täubchenfleisch
lang: Greek
word: πιτσούνι
roman: pitsoúni
lang: Korean
word: 비둘기고기
roman: bidulgigogi
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: голубчецина
roman: holubčecina
lang: Portuguese
word: borracho
lang: Russian
word: голубя́тина
roman: golubjátina
lang: Spanish
word: pichón
lang: Vietnamese
word: thịt bồ câu
lang: Volapük
word: pijunülamit