squabashn.
A crushing blow; a squashing.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > instance of
humiliation1526
snub1748
set-down1780
squabash1818
a slap in (or on) the face, in the eye, on the wrist1861
throwdown1887
put-down1932
a kick in the pants1933
ass-kicking1943
a kick in the teeth1972
bitch slap1987
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 250 The Author of ‘The Dentist’ is most rash; If printed, 'twould secure him a squabash.
1832 Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 31 281 Here are some verses that give all such shallow and senseless critics the squabash!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
squabashv.
/skwɒˈbaʃ/ transitive. To crush, squash, demolish.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin
spillc950
fellOE
to cast downc1230
destroy1297
to turn up?c1335
to throw down1340
to ding downc1380
to break downa1382
subverta1382
underturn1382
to take downc1384
falla1400
to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400
voida1400
brittenc1400
to burst downc1440
to pull downc1450
pluck1481
tumble1487
wreck1510
defacea1513
confound1523
raze1523
arase1530
to beat downc1540
ruinate1548
demolish1560
plane1562
to shovel down1563
race?1567
ruin1585
rape1597
unwall1598
to bluster down16..
raise1603
level1614
debolish1615
unbuilda1616
to make smooth work of1616
slight1640
to knock down1776
squabash1822
collapse1883
to turn over1897
mash1924
rubble1945
to take apart1978
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 88 When their darling was squabash'd At glorious Waterloo.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1941) 8 His satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs.
a1845 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Legends (1858) Pref. p. vi In order utterly to squabash and demolish every gainsayer.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Feb. 4/1 Mr. Ruskin is right in saying that J. S. Mill has been squabashed.
Derivatives
squaˈbasher n.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > one who or that which humiliates
stoop-gallant1551
depressor1611
humbler1611
deprimenta1624
putter-down1701
mortifier1801
squabasher1827
humiliator1850
snubber1861
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 650 That was a squabasher to the Elchee, who tried to back out of the argument.
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 66 Sidney Smith,..squabasher of the cowardly..invention of the ballot-box.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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