a. [f. SQUAT v.] Somewhat squat; squattish.
1854. Edgefield Advertiser (SC), 20 April, 2/4. Low and squatty tenements of a past age serve the purposes of milliners and fruiterers.
1881. J. Burroughs, Pepacton, iii. (1883), 83. A few yards away stood another short, squatty hemlock.
1884. J. G. Bourke, Snake-Dance Moquis, xxiii. 259. A low squatty plant, with thick, broad, dark-green leaves.
1890. W. R. Nicoll, J. Macdonell, i. 7. Every room in the low, squatty Gordon Arms, and in the low, squatty Richmond Arms, was filled.
Comb. 1888. Fenn, Dick o’ the Fens, 110. A number of flat-looking squatty-shaped pochards.
