Meaning of Squab | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fledgling (young) bird.
   attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable
2. A young dove or pigeon.
   attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable
3. A young chicken.
   attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable
4. A young rook.
   attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable
5. The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food.
   uncountable
6. A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
   countable
7. A person of a short, fat figure.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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:”

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