Squatter vs Squatted - What's the difference?
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One who squats, sits down idly.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
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#*2004 , James Jupp, The English in Australia ,
#*:While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters , eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land.
A large-scale grazier and landowner.
*1970 , George Sampson, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature , 3rd Edition,
*: was a squatter', a magistrate and a commissioner of goldfields and knew thoroughly the life he described in ''Robbery Under Arms'' (1888), the story of the bushranger Captain Starlight—first serialised in ''The Sydney Mail'' in 1881—and in his numerous other novels, which included ''The '''Squatter ?s Dream (1890).
*1993 , (Manning Clark), Michael Cathcart (abridging editor), Manning Clark?s History of Australia: Abridged by Michael Cathcart ,
*:In Parliament, at least, the squatters' were secure. ¶ In the early 1840s a severe depression threatened livelihoods in all the colonies except South Australia and many ' squatters resorted to slaughtering their sheep and boiling them down for tallow.
*2010 , Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion ,
*:His dealings with squatter R. R. McBean and superintendents Hare and Nicolson amaze the 16-year-old, who has little experience with the wealthy privileged class.
(lb) A squat toilet.
*2012 , Randall L. Erickson, Traveling Business Class , p.54:
*:All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters .
(squat)
Relatively short or low and thick or broad
* Robert Browning
* Grew
* 1927 ,
Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
* Milton
A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
* 2006 , Yael Calhoun and Matthew R. Calhoun, Create a Yoga Practice for Kids , page 72:
(weightlifting): A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders.
* 2001 , Robert Wolff, Robert Wolff's Book of Great Workouts , page 58-59:
A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a (squat toilet).
A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
* 1996 July 8, Chris Smith, "Live Free or Die", in New York Magazine? , page 36:
(slang) Something of no value; nothing.
* 2003 May 6, "Dear Dotti", ? , volume 24, number 34, page 23:
(obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
(mining) A small vein of ore.
A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
* 1901 , , chapter II
(weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
* 1994 , Kurt, Mike, & Brett Brungardt, The Complete Book of Butt and Legs , page 161
To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
* 1890 , , chapter VII
To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
(dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
As a noun squatter
is one who squats, sits down idly.As a verb squatted is
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Usage notes
In Australian historical usage, the distinction between the senses of occupier of Crown land'' and ''large scale landowner is often blurred; many of the original illegal landholders became rich and, as a group, politically powerful.Derived terms
* cybersquatter, websquatterSee also
* cocky (small scale farmer)Anagrams
* ----squatted
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Verb
(head)squat
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) squatten, from (etyl) esquatir, . The sense "nothing" may by a source or a derivation of diddly-squat .Adjective
(squatter)- the round, squat turret
- The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat .
- On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat , moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges
- Him there they found, / Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
Noun
(en noun)- Sit in a squat , with your feet a comfortable distance apart.
- The king of all quad exercises, and arguably the best single-weight resistance exercise, is the squat .
- " If you want to spend a night in a squat , it's all political to get in." Lately, as buildings have filled and become stringent about new admissions, much of the squatters' "My house is your house" rhetoric has become hollow.
- I know squat about nuclear physics.
- We didn't ask for rent, but we assumed they'd help around the house. But they don't do squat .
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- (Halliwell)
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Derived terms
* breathing squat * front squat * hack squat * sissy squat * squat snipeVerb
(squatt)- He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.
- For those who are having, or have had, trouble squatting' we suggest learning how to ' squat by performing the front squatThe front squat allows you almost no alternative but to perform the exercise correctly.
- Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.