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  1. squabbish love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Thick; fat; heavy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. thick; fat; heavy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Thick; fat; heavy.

Etymologies

  1. squab +‎ -ish? (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And this forlorn picture of dilapidated houses, half-clad, squabbish women, blistered-faced men, and sickly children, the house of the Nine Nations overlooks.”

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • “Nine shivering forms crouched in one dismal room; four squabbish women, and three besotted men in another; and in a third, nine ragged boys and two small girls -- such are the scenes of squalid misery presented here.”

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

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  • chained_bear This can't be a real word. It seems like cheating... and yet... it's in the OED. Feb 1, 2007

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‘squabbish’ has been looked up 301 times, added to 1 list, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 25.