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Squab
Squab Squab, v. i.
To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
[Obs.]
Squab
Squab 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.
Squab
Squab Squab, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Meaning of Squabs from wikipedia
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Canada was one and a half
million squabs per year. Pigeons,
unlike other poultry, form pair
bonds to breed, and
squabs must be
brooded and fed by both parents...
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provide the
squabs (baby
pigeons and doves) with milk
uncontaminated by seeds,
which the very
young squabs would be
unable to digest. The baby
squabs are fed...
- are
squabs, squeakers, or peeps, the
latter two
being a
reference to
their cry when
begging for food.[unreliable source?] Initially, the
squabs are fed...
- In America,
squab pie
still uses
squab. It was
included in a "Cooking for profit" book in San Francisco, to make a pie
using 18
squabs in a gravy. In...
- from such a bird
Squab pie, a dish made from lamb and
apples A
cushion for a
chair or couch; a
short sofa
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episode of TV...
- an
estimate viewership of 16.5 million. Also, the
episode "
Squab,
Squab,
Squab,
Squab,
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received the show's
second highest viewership with 24.2...
- The
Squab Farm was a
comedic play
about the film
industry staged on
Broadway in 1918. It was
written by ****
Hatton and
Frederic Hatton, and
staged at...
- swellfish, toadfish, toadies, toadle,
honey toads,
sugar toads, and sea
squab. They are
morphologically similar to the
closely related porcupinefish,...
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strongly ****ually dimorphic. The
species is
generally monogamous, with two
squabs (young) per brood. Both
parents care for the
young for a time. Habitats...
- but also
includes guinea fowl and
squabs (young pigeons). In R. D. Crawford's
Poultry breeding and genetics,
squabs are
omitted but ****anese
quail and...
