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Squab vs Squabness - What's the difference?

squab | squabness |

As nouns the difference between squab and squabness

is that squab is a baby pigeon or dove while squabness is the quality of being like a squab.

As a verb squab

is 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 with a heavy fall; plump.

squab

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 , page 86,
    • On her large ?quab you find her ?pread, / Like a fat corp?e upon a bed, / That lies and ?tinks in ?tate.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Punching the squab of chairs and sofas.
  • A person of a short, fat figure.
  • * , The Progress of Error'', 1824, ''Poems of William Cowper, Esq , 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 rook

    Verb

    (squabb)
  • (obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
  • To furnish with squabs, or cushions.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
  • * (rfdate) Betterton
    • Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
  • Unfledged; unfeathered.
    • a squab pigeon
    (King)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (slang) With a heavy fall; plump.
  • * (rfdate) L'Estrange
    • The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab , upon a rock.
    (Webster 1913)

    squabness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being like a squab
  • *1866 , Mary Brotherton, "Karl's First Love", Temple Bar , Volume 18, Richard Bentley, page 271
  • *:One is a gifted maiden poetess (I am certain she is a gifted maiden poetess), whose squabness of contour, sharpness and redness of nose, and general forty-fiveness of aspect, a little mars the romantic effect of the oleanders which she loves to stick in her hair.
  • *1891 , "Critical Notices", The Calcutta Review , volume 183, Thomas S. Smith, page v
  • *:Squabness appear to be the special characteristic of early Hindu architecture; and it had affinities for the grotesque.
  • *1922 , Arthur Machen, Far Off Things , Martin Secker, page 43
  • *:I suspect it was the oddity of the shape, the extreme squabness of the volume, that first took my fancy, and then I open the pages--and I have never really closed them.