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单词 squabby
释义 squabby, a.|ˈskwɒbɪ|
[f. squab n. or a.]
Low and stout; squat, thick-set.
1754Connoisseur No. 5. 28 A short squabby gentleman of a gross and corpulent make.1780Mirror No. 88, Mrs. Deborah is..in her person thick and squabby.1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 64 Judy was a good-looking girl, though of the species called squabby.1845Tait's Mag. XII. 39 The squabby cob maintained his even pace.1875G. Macdonald Malcolm III. xv. 202 Over the kitchen-fire, like an evil spirit of the squabby order, crouched Mrs. Catanach.
Comb.1848Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) I. 171 You chubby-faced, squabby-nosed Europeans owe your commerce, your arts, your religion, to the Hebrews.
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