Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thick; fat; heavy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thick; fat; heavy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
thick ;fat ;heavy
Etymologies
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squab + -ish?
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Examples
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And this forlorn picture of dilapidated houses, half-clad, squabbish women, blistered-faced men, and sickly children, the house of the Nine Nations overlooks.
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Nine shivering forms crouched in one dismal room; four squabbish women, and three besotted men in another; and in a third, nine ragged boys and two small girls -- such are the scenes of squalid misery presented here.
chained_bear commented on the word squabbish
This can't be a real word. It seems like cheating... and yet... it's in the OED.
February 2, 2007