squab
/ˈskwɑb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones."
- "a. 1744, Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86, On her large ſquab you find her ſpread, / Like a fat corpſe upon a bed, / That lies and ſtinks in ſtate."
- "[H]erds of shabby vampires, Jew and Christian, over-run the house, [...] punching the squabs of chairs and sofas with their dirty fists, touzling the feather-beds, opening and shutting all the drawers, balancing the silver spoons and forks, looking into the very threads of the drapery and linen, and disparaging everything."
- "Another feature new to British Railways is the provision of two-position adjustable seats in the first class compartments. In this design, the seat squab can be pulled out some six inches, the seat back being attached to the seat to give a less upright sitting position."
- "Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:"
- "Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice."
Etymology
Origin
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskwɑb/
- British English: /ˈskwɒb/
Usage
Inflected Forms
squabs (plural)
squabs (present, singular)
squabbing (participle, present)
squabbed (participle, past)
squabbed (past)
more squab (comparative)
most squab (superlative)