squab

Etymology
, unattested before c. 17. Possibly descended from dialect.

Noun

 * 1)  A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken.
 * 2)  The meat of such a baby bird used as food.
 * 3)  A baby rook.
 * 4)  A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
 * , 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.
 * 1)  A person of a short, fat figure.
 * 1)  A person of a short, fat figure.
 * 1)  A person of a short, fat figure.

Synonyms

 * ,, pigeon chick, young pigeon, baby dove
 * rook chick, young rook

Translations

 * Arabic: زُغْلُول, جَوْزَل
 * Armenian:, , աղավնու ձագ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: неоперено пиле
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 乳鴿
 * Mandarin: 乳鴿
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: kolombido
 * Finnish: kyyhkysenpoikanen
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ხუნდი
 * German: Jungtaube, ungefiederte Jungtaube, Taubenküken, Taubenbaby
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: περιστεριδεύς
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: golubić,
 * Slovak: holúbä
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: голуб'я, голубеня
 * Volapük:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鴿肉
 * Esperanto: kolombidaĵo, kolombidoviando
 * Finnish: kyyhkysenliha
 * French:
 * German:, Täubchenfleisch
 * Greek:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Vietnamese: thịt bồ câu
 * Volapük:


 * Finnish: mustavariksen poikanen
 * French: bébé corneille, bébé freux, petit de la corneille, petit du freux
 * Greek: νεοσσός τρυπανοκόρακα, νεογνό τρυπανοκόρακα
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish: råkunge


 * Bulgarian: твърда възглавница
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
 * 2)  To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
 * 3)  To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.

Adjective

 * 1) Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
 * 2) Unfledged; unfeathered.
 * 3) Clumsy.
 * 4) Curt; abrupt.
 * 5) Shy; coy.
 * 1) Clumsy.
 * 2) Curt; abrupt.
 * 3) Shy; coy.

Adverb

 * 1)  With a heavy fall; plump.