squab

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈskwɒb/    美 /ˈskwɑb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fledgling (young) bird.; A young dove or pigeon. attributive,countable,sometimes,uncountable
  2. A fledgling (young) bird.; A young chicken. attributive,countable,sometimes,uncountable
  3. A fledgling (young) bird.; A young rook. attributive,countable,sometimes,uncountable
  4. The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food. uncountable
    — Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.
  5. A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa. countable
    — a. 1744, Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86, On her large ſquab you find her ſpread, / Like a fat corpſe upon a bed, / That lies and ſtinks in ſtate.
  6. A person of a short, fat figure. countable
    — Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:
动词 v.
  1. To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. obsolete
  2. To furnish with squabs, or cushions. transitive
  3. To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
    — Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.
  2. Unfledged; unfeathered.
    — broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons precipitated from above
  3. Clumsy.
  4. Curt; abrupt.
  5. Shy; coy.
副词 adv.
  1. With a heavy fall; plump. not-comparable,slang
    — The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.

词形变化

squabs plural squabs present,singular,third-person squabbing participle,present squabbed participle,past squabbed past more squab comparative most squab superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
squabbish squabby squab chick squabness squab pie

词源

词源 1
Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
词源 2
Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
词源 3
Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
词源 4
Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.
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