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squabby

[skwob-ee]

adjective, squab·bi·er, squab·bi·est.

short and stout; squat.

Origin:
1745–55; squab + -y¹

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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squab (skwɒb)

—n , pl squabs, squab
1.	a young unfledged bird, esp a pigeon
2.	a short fat person
3.	a. a well-stuffed bolster or cushion
	b. a sofa

—*adj*
4.	(of birds) recently hatched and still unfledged
5.	short and fat

[C17: probably of Germanic origin; compare Swedish dialect sqvabb flabby skin, sqvabba fat woman, German Quabbe soft mass, Norwegian kvabb mud]

'squabby

—*adj*

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