squatteringn.
The action of the verb, in various senses.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > splashing or moving about in (shallow) water
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squacquarata,..a squattring, a squirting.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Espanchement, a disordered, or hastie squattering, spilling, sheeding, or pouring out.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xvi. 68 The Devil of any thing we do, but fizzling, farting, funking, squattering, dozing.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xiii. 121 We could hear..multitudinous squatterings in the water as of a thousand wounded wild ducks.
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squatteringadj.
That squatters, in senses of the verb.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [adjective] > diarrhoea > voiding
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squattering1598
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [adjective] > splashing or moving about in (shallow) water
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Squacchera, a squattring soft turd.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xvii. 371 It is a language..squattering, dragling, and filthie.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lxvii. 270 From Eighteen squattering Bonasi.
1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye I. 108 As we approached, a duck burst from its face on ‘squattering’ wings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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