Squab vs Quail - What's the difference?
squab | quail |
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
To waste away; to fade, wither.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 358:
To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
* Longfellow
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde):
* 1949 , (George Orwell), Nineteen Eighty-Four , p. 25:
To slacken, give way (of courage, faith etc.).
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix'', ''Anurophasis'' or ''Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
(obsolete) A prostitute; so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
In obsolete terms the difference between squab and quail
is that squab is to fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke while quail is a prostitute; so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.As an adjective squab
is fat; thick; plump; bulky.As an adverb squab
is with a heavy fall; plump.As a proper noun Quail is
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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.
quail
English
(wikipedia quail)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to (etyl) queilen.Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
- Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter.
- Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.
- His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en-noun)- (Shakespeare)