Chick vs Squab - What's the difference?
chick | squab |
A young bird.
A young chicken.
(slang) (rft-sense) A woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive).
* {{quote-book, year=1927, title=Elmer Gantry, author=Sinclair Lewis
, passage=He had determined that marriage now would cramp his advancement in the church and that, anyway, he didn't want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick , who would be of no help in impressing rich parishioners.}}
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Bad moon rising?, author=Tess Pendergrass
, passage=I can't believe you've got a hot chick in that ratty apartment with you.}}
A baby pigeon or dove.
The meat of a squab (i.e. a young (domestic) pigeon or dove) used as food.
A baby rook.
A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
* (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia'', 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), ''A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain ,
* (rfdate)
A person of a short, fat figure.
* , The Progress of Error'', 1824, ''Poems of William Cowper, Esq ,
(obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
* (rfdate) Betterton
Unfledged; unfeathered.
(slang) With a heavy fall; plump.
* (rfdate) L'Estrange
In slang|lang=en terms the difference between chick and squab
is that chick is (slang) a woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive) while squab is (slang) with a heavy fall; plump.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between chick and squab
is that chick is (obsolete) to sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate while squab is (obsolete) to fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.As nouns the difference between chick and squab
is that chick is a young bird while squab is a baby pigeon or dove.As verbs the difference between chick and squab
is that chick is (obsolete) to sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate while squab is (obsolete) to fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.As an adjective squab is
fat; thick; plump; bulky.As an adverb squab is
(slang) with a heavy fall; plump.chick
English
Noun
(en noun)- Three cool chicks / Are walking down the street / Swinging their hips — song "Three Cool Cats" by
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* chick flick * chickfriend * chick litReferences
squab
English
Noun
(en noun)page 86,
- On her large ?quab you find her ?pread, / Like a fat corp?e upon a bed, / That lies and ?tinks in ?tate.
- Punching the squab of chairs and sofas.
page 28,
- Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:
Synonyms
* (baby pigeon) piper, squeaker, pigeon chick, young pigeon, baby dove * (baby rook) rook chick, young rookVerb
(squabb)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
- a squab pigeon
- (King)
Adverb
(-)- The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab , upon a rock.