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noun

Squab n.

(Zool.) A nestling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.

A person of a short, fat figure. "Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan."

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."

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Etymology of 'Squab'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squab" Quotes from Famous Books

... depicting them. As to the wings, it were better to say nothing about them. What was to be thought of the Saint Ursula with a prominent forehead like a cupping-glass and a burly stomach, surrounded by other creatures as shapeless as herself, their squab noses poking out of the bladders of lard that did duty ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... by many who were smarting from his ridicule, and by many who were envious of his renown. In spite of all the restraints under which the press lay, attacks on his life and writings appeared daily. Sometimes he was Bayes, sometimes Poet Squab. He was reminded that in his youth he had paid to the House of Cromwell the same servile court which he was now paying to the House of Stuart. One set of his assailants maliciously reprinted the sarcastic ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... but they had already had them for breakfast, and beefsteak was very good, but he hated it. Perhaps chops would do, or, better still, mushrooms on toast, only they were not in the market at that time of year. She dismissed a stewed squab, and questioned a sweetbread, and wondered if there were not some kind of game. In the end she decided to leave it to the provision man, and she lost no time after she reached her decision in going out to ...

— The Story of a Play - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... the shocking description, in a dark nook stood an old broken-bottomed cane couch, without a squab, or coverlid, sunk at one corner, and unmortised by the failing of one of its worm-eater legs, which lay in two pieces under the wretched piece of furniture it could no ...

— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson

Words linked to "Squab" : pigeon, poultry, sea squab, short, dove, domestic pigeon, sofa, lounge