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Squab

adjective
1.
Short and fat.  Synonym: squabby.



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"Squab" Quotes from Famous Books



... lower on the bridge of his tanned nose, and tried to forget that back there in the diner they would give him grapefruit on ice, and after that rolled oats with thick yellow cream, and after that ham and eggs or a tenderloin steak or broiled squab on toast; and tried to remember only that the check would make five dollars look sick. He wished he knew how much the fare would be to some of those places where he meant to lose himself. With all that classy-looking paraphernalia he would not dare attempt to beat his way on a freight. ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
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... over the contents of a stall in a Wardour Street alley that Charles Lamb lighted upon a ragged duodecimo, which had been the delight of his infancy. The price demanded was sixpence, which the owner, himself a squab little duodecimo of a character, enforced with the asseverance that his own mother should not have it for a farthing less, supplementing the assertion with an oath and 'Now, I have put my soul to it.' The book was the 'Queen Like Closet,' which, it is scarcely necessary to say, Elia rescued ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts
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Words linked to "Squab" :   squabby, lounge, pigeon, sofa, dove, short, domestic pigeon, couch, little, poultry, sea squab


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