Squab

Quick meaning: Squab is a noun meaning (countable, sometimes attributive) A fledgling (young) bird.

Meaning

(countable, sometimes attributive) A fledgling (young) bird.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food.
2. (countable) A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
3. (countable) A person of a short, fat figure.
4. (transitive) To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
5. (transitive) To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.
6. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
7. (obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

Example Sentences

Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.

Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:

broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons precipitated from above

Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.

Word Forms

• squabs
• squabbing
• squabbed

Synonyms for squab

Depending on context, synonyms include short, dove, squabby.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dove, squabby, short, broilers, squeaker, quab.

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