Squat

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squat \Squat\ (skw[o^]t), n. (Zool.)
     The angel fish ({Squatina angelus}).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Squat \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. of 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.
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     2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie
        close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
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     3. To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle
        on common or public lands.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squat \Squat\, v. t.
     To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squat \Squat\, a.
     1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground;
        cowering; crouching.
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              Him there they found,
              Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
        "The round, squat turret." --R. Browning.
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              The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat.
                                                    --Grew.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squat \Squat\, n.
     1. The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or
        close to the ground.
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     2. A sudden or crushing fall. [Obs.] --Herbert.
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     3. (Mining)
        (a) A small vein of ore.
        (b) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. --Halliwell.
            --Woodward.
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     {Squat snipe} (Zool.), the jacksnipe; -- called also
        {squatter}. [Local, U.S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  squat
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {chunky},
               {dumpy}, {low-set}, {squatty}, {stumpy}]
       2: having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
          [syn: {underslung}]
       n 1: exercising by repeatedly assuming a squatting position;
            strengthens the leg muscles [syn: {knee bend}, {squatting}]
       2: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: {jack},
           {diddly-squat}, {diddlysquat}, {diddly-shit}, {diddlyshit},
           {diddly}, {diddley}, {shit}]
       3: the act of assuming or maintaining a squatting position
          [syn: {squatting}]
       v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth
            while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect
            themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: {crouch}, {scrunch},
             {scrunch up}, {hunker}, {hunker down}]
       2: be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The
          building squatted low"
       3: occupy (a dwelling) illegally
       [also: {squatting}, {squatted}, {squattest}, {squatter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  211 Moby Thesaurus words for "squat":
     Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abide, adipose, anchor, be enfeoffed of,
     be possessed of, be seated, be seized of, beefy, bend, berth,
     big-bellied, billet at, bivouac, bloated, blocky, blowzy, boast,
     bob, bosomy, bow, brawny, bunk, burly, burrow, buxom, camp, chubby,
     chunky, claim, cohabit, colonize, come to anchor, command,
     corpulent, couch, couchant, cower, crawl, cringe, crouch, crouched,
     curtsy, debased, depressed, distended, domesticate, domicile,
     domiciliate, doss down, drop anchor, duck, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed,
     dwarfish, dwell, elfin, enjoy, ensconce, establish residence, fat,
     fattish, fill, flat, fleshy, full, genuflection, get down, gross,
     grovel, hang out, have, have and hold, have in hand,
     have tenure of, heavyset, hefty, hippy, hive, hold, hug the earth,
     hunch, hunch down, hunker down, imposing, incipient, inhabit,
     keep house, knee-high, kneeling, knocked flat, kowtow, laid low,
     lie low, lie prone, lie prostrate, lie under, live, live at,
     locate, lodge, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled,
     low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lusty, meager, meaty, midget,
     moor, move, nanoid, neap, nest, nod, obeisance, obese, occupy,
     overweight, park, paunchy, people, perch, plump, podgy, populate,
     portly, possess, potbellied, prone, prostration, pudgy, puffy, pug,
     pugged, pursy, pygmy, recumbent, relocate, remain, reside,
     retrousse, reverence, roly-poly, room, roost, rotund, rudimental,
     rudimentary, runty, salaam, scraggy, scrouch down, scrubby,
     set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, short,
     shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, sit down, snub-nosed, square,
     squat on, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stand, stay, stay at,
     stocky, stoop, stooped, stout, strapping, strike root, stubbed,
     stubby, stumpy, stunted, supination, supine, swat, swollen,
     take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenant, thick,
     thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, underlie,
     undersize, undersized, unelevated, usucapt, wallow, well-fed,
     welter, wizened