squab

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A young dove or pigeon.
2. isim A young chicken.
3. isim A young rook.
4. isim The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food.

   “Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.”

5. isim A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.

   “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. isim A person of a short, fat figure.

   “Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:”

7. fiil To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
8. fiil To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
9. fiil To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.
10. sıfat Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

    “Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.”

11. sıfat Unfledged; unfeathered.

    “broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons precipitated from above”

12. sıfat Clumsy.
13. sıfat Curt; abrupt.
14. sıfat Shy; coy.
15. zarf With a heavy fall; plump.

    “The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.”