Squab (?), a. [Cf. dial. Sw. sqvabb a soft and fat body, sqvabba a fat woman, Icel. kvap jelly, jellylike things, and and E. quab.]
1.
Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
Betterton.
2.
Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.
King.
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Squab, n.
1. Zool.
A neatling 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.
Cowper.
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.
Dickens.
On her large squab you find her spread.
Pope.
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Squab, adv. [Cf. dial. Sw. squapp, a word imitative of a splash, and E. squab fat, unfledged.]
With a heavy fall; plump.
[Vulgar]
The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.
L'Estrange.
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Squab, v. i.
To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
[Obs.]
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