Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or into a squatting posture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Squatting.
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- adjective
squatting - adverb
squatting
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Examples
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Koeneke, like an oracle asquat his own fissure, has written a book that is unconscionably nifty-gallifty.
Books by Portland Authors: Rodney Koeneke - Reading Local: Portland 2009
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Matt walked through the neighborhood to see the old building, number 611, and wondered idly who lived in their third-floor apartment, what language spoken, how many grinding lives, but mainly he thought of nine-year-old Nicky asquat the glory seat.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Matt walked through the neighborhood to see the old building, number 611, and wondered idly who lived in their third-floor apartment, what language spoken, how many grinding lives, but mainly he thought of nine-year-old Nicky asquat the glory seat.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Matt walked through the neighborhood to see the old building, number 611, and wondered idly who lived in their third-floor apartment, what language spoken, how many grinding lives, but mainly he thought of nine-year-old Nicky asquat the glory seat.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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And the eager attention with which his flock, asquat on the floor, listened to a very long sermon, showed he had chosen well when he refused to leave them.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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We left him asquat on the stream bank, washing his treasure-trove.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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As he sat asquat, with his rifle across his knees, he rolled with mirth at the mere recollection.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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Then, if you persist, you make out a misty hollow where equally misty and dark lumps are asquat or prone or wandering from one corner to another.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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Perhaps to get into the mood of the waterways one needs to have seen old Amos Judson asquat on the headgate with his gun, guarding his water-right toward the end of a dry summer.
minerva commented on the word asquat
But, unluckily, there was the odious Solmes sitting asquat between my mamma and sister...
October 9, 2007