a. Also 7 squobb’d. [f. SQUAB a. or v.] Squat, dumpy.

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1694.  Motteux, Rabelais, IV. ix. 38. A strapping, fusty squobb’d Dowdy.

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1822.  Blackw. Mag., XII. 70. What, that squabb’d thing? that’s none of mine.

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1893.  Westm. Gaz., 7 March, 9/2. A ‘squabbed’ shape dome and an ordinary ‘Ramsbottom’ safety valve.

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