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noun
Squab  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A nestling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
2.
A person of a short, fat figure. "Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan."
3.
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.  
1.
Fat; thick; plump; bulky. "Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice."
2.
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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"Squab" Quotes from Famous Books



... beginnings were both modest and obscure. True, his parents were dvoriane, but he in no way resembled them. At all events, a short, squab female relative who was present at his birth exclaimed as she lifted up the baby: "He is altogether different from what I had expected him to be. He ought to have taken after his maternal grandmother, whereas he has been born, as the ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner. The very gold ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... hurt," he said: "one of you go at once for the doctor; the others bring a hand-barrow—I know there is one about the place. Lay the squab of a sofa on it, and make haste. ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald
... did you detail dem two pikers, Miller and Swenson, to guard de skirt fer if it wasn't fer some special frame-up of yer own? Dey never been in our gang, and dats just wot you wanted 'em fer. It was easy to tip dem off to hike out wid de squab, and de first chanct you get you'll hike after dem, while we hold de bag. Tought you'd double-cross us easy, didn't ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... said, "is unbaked, unmature, unfledged. It's squab-logic, I tell you, Valerie; and it is not very easy for me ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers


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