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SQUAB, a. [G., plump, sleek; to be plump or sleek, and to vibrate.]

1. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

Nor the squab daughter, nor the wife were nice.

2. Unfledged; unfethered; as a squab pigeon.

SQUAB, n.

1. A young pigeon or dove. [This word is in common or general use in America, and almost the only sense in which it is used is the one here given. It is sometimes used in the sense of fat, plump.]

2. A kind of sofa or couch; a stuffed cushion. [Not used in America.]

SQUAB, adv. Striking at once; with a heavy fall; plump.

The eagle dropped the tortoise squab upon a rock. [Low and not used.]

[The vulgar word awhap or whop, is used in a like sense in America. It is found in Chaucer.]
1913 Definition
Squab (squab)
a.(?)
Squab
[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.
  3. A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
  4. A person of a short, fat figure.

    Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan,
    Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan.
    Cowper.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
    [Obs.]

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