'Squat' definitions:
Definition of 'Squat'
From: GCIDE
- Squat \Squat\ (skw[o^]t), n. (Zool.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Squat'
From: GCIDE
- Squat \Squat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squatting.] [OE. squatten to crush, OF. esquater, esquatir (cf. It. quatto squat, cowering), perhaps fr. L. ex + coactus, p. p. of cogere to drive or urge together. See Cogent, Squash, v. t.]
- 1. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Squat'
From: GCIDE
- Squat \Squat\, v. t. To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Squat'
From: GCIDE
- Squat \Squat\, a.
- 1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching. [1913 Webster]
- Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. "The round, squat turret." --R. Browning. [1913 Webster]
- The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat. --Grew. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Squat'
From: GCIDE
- Squat \Squat\, n.
- 1. The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sudden or crushing fall. [Obs.] --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mining) (a) A small vein of ore. (b) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. --Halliwell. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- Squat snipe (Zool.), the jacksnipe; -- called also squatter. [Local, U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'squat'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- adipose,
- anchor,
- be enfeoffed of,
- be possessed of,
- be seated,
- be seized of,
- beefy,
- bend,
- berth,
- big-bellied,
- billet at,
- bivouac,
- bloated,
- blocky,
- blowzy,
- boast,
- bob,
- bosomy,
- bow,
- brawny,
- bunk,
- burly,
- burrow,
- buxom,
- camp,
- chubby,
- chunky,
- claim,
- cohabit,
- colonize,
- come to anchor,
- command,
- corpulent,
- couch,
- couchant,
- cower,
- crawl,
- cringe,
- crouch,
- crouched,
- curtsy,
- debased,
- depressed,
- distended,
- domesticate,
- domicile,
- domiciliate,
- doss down,
- drop anchor,
- duck,
- dumpy,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- dwell,
- elfin,
- enjoy,
- ensconce,
- establish residence,
- fat,
- fattish,
- fill,
- flat,
- fleshy,
- full,
- genuflection,
- get down,
- gross,
- grovel,
- hang out,
- have,
- have and hold,
- have in hand,
- have tenure of,
- heavyset,
- hefty,
- hippy,
- hive,
- hold,
- hug the earth,
- hunch,
- hunch down,
- hunker down,
- imposing,
- incipient,
- inhabit,
- keep house,
- knee-high,
- kneeling,
- knocked flat,
- kowtow,
- laid low,
- lie low,
- lie prone,
- lie prostrate,
- lie under,
- Lilliputian,
- live,
- live at,
- locate,
- lodge,
- low,
- low-built,
- low-hung,
- low-level,
- low-leveled,
- low-lying,
- low-set,
- low-statured,
- lusty,
- meager,
- meaty,
- midget,
- moor,
- move,
- nanoid,
- neap,
- nest,
- nod,
- obeisance,
- obese,
- occupy,
- overweight,
- park,
- paunchy,
- people,
- perch,
- plump,
- podgy,
- populate,
- portly,
- possess,
- potbellied,
- prone,
- prostration,
- pudgy,
- puffy,
- pug,
- pugged,
- pursy,
- pygmy,
- recumbent,
- relocate,
- remain,
- reside,
- retrousse,
- reverence,
- roly-poly,
- room,
- roost,
- rotund,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- runty,
- salaam,
- scraggy,
- scrouch down,
- scrubby,
- set up housekeeping,
- set up shop,
- settle,
- settle down,
- short,
- shriveled,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- sit down,
- snub-nosed,
- square,
- squat on,
- squattish,
- squatty,
- stalwart,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay at,
- stocky,
- stoop,
- stooped,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strike root,
- stubbed,
- stubby,
- stumpy,
- stunted,
- supination,
- supine,
- swat,
- swollen,
- take residence at,
- take root,
- take up residence,
- tenant,
- thick,
- thick-bodied,
- thickset,
- Tom Thumb,
- top-heavy,
- tubby,
- turned-up,
- underlie,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- unelevated,
- usucapt,
- wallow,
- well-fed,
- welter,
- wizened