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Meaning of bum squabbled | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Discomfited; perplexed and defeated.

archaic, not-comparable, slang

Examples

“If he didn't look bumsquabbled it's a pity.”
“Our Yankee, who'd commenced the fight, and rather to be donnish meant, "Bumsquabbled" felt (as well he might), with genuine astonishment, And when, by aid of jury masts, he reached his native city, If he didn't look "tarnation streaked" and foolish "it's a pity."”
“For lack of Bignall, an honest Irish yeoman was picked out of the crowd, and though he was, in the Doctor's words 'as my friend Sam Slick hath it a little bum-squabbled at the totally unexpected honour, he got through the formality of proposing Captain Strachan creditably.”
“But I'll be bum squabbled if I don't get my pretty chits respectably leg-shackled before this coming season is half over!”
“I fot a right to the street, same's you, you bum-squabbled bag-pudding!”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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