| Pronunciation: | | skwât
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- [n] the act of assuming or maintaining a squatting position
- [n] exercising by repeatedly assuming a squatting position; strengthens the leg muscles
- [n] a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
- [adj] having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
- [adj] short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
- [v] sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"
- [v] occupy (a dwelling) illegally
- [v] be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low"
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| | Synonyms: | | chunky, crouch, diddley, diddly, diddlyshit, diddly-shit, diddlysquat, diddly-squat, dumpy, hunker down, jack, low, low-set, scrunch, scrunch up, shit, short, squatting, squatty, stumpy, underslung |
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| | See Also: | | be, leg exercise, lodge in, motility, motion, move, movement, occupy, reside, sit, sit down, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Squat\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The angel fish ({Squatina angelus}).
\Squat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Squatted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Squatting}.] [OE. squatten to crush, OF. esquater, esquatir
(cf. It. quatto squat, cowering), perhaps fr. L. ex +
coactus, p. p. cogere to drive or urge together. See
{Cogent}, {Squash}, v. t.]
1. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages
squatted near the fire.
2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie
close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
3. To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle
on common or public lands.
\Squat\, v. t.
To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs.]
\Squat\, a.
1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground;
cowering; crouching.
Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at
the ear of Eve. --Milton.
2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
``The round, squat turret.'' --R. Browning.
The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat.
--Grew.
\Squat\, n.
1. The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or
close to the ground.
2. A sudden or crushing fall. [Obs.] --erbert.
3. (Mining)
(a) A small vein of ore.
(b) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. --Halliwell.
Woodward.
{Squat snipe} (Zo["o]l.), the jacksnipe; -- called also
{squatter}. [Local, U.S.]
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