Squab vs Fight - What's the difference?
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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
(label) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
(label) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
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, title= (label) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
* (1800-1859)
* Bible, iv. 7
(label) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
(label) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
An occasion of fighting.
(archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
(sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, title= The will or ability to fight.
(obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.
* Dryden
In obsolete terms the difference between squab and fight
is that squab is to fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke while fight is a screen for the combatants in ships.In transitive terms the difference between squab and fight
is that squab is to furnish with squabs, or cushions while fight is to try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.As an adjective squab
is fat; thick; plump; bulky.As an adverb squab
is with a heavy fall; plump.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.
fight
English
Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath.}}
Freedom fighter, passage=[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.}}
- He had to fight his way through the world.
- I have fought a good fight.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* fight a losing battle * fight back * fight fire with fire * fightest * fight shy of * fight the good fight * fight tooth and nailNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.}}
- Up with your fights , and your nettings prepare.
