Synonyms of the word squab


SQUABCOUCH - DOVE - LOUNGE - PIGEON - POULTRY - SHORT - SOFA - SQUABBY

squab

  • n. A baby pigeon or dove.
  • n. The meat of a squab (i.e. a young (domestic) pigeon or dove) used as food.
  • n. A baby rook.
  • n. A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
  • n. A person of a short, fat figure.
  • v. (obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
  • adj. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
  • adj. Unfledged; unfeathered.
  • adv. (slang) With a heavy fall; plump.

couch

  • n. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
  • n. A bed, a resting-place.
  • n. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
  • n. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied…
  • v. To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
  • v. (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved…
  • v. To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
  • v. (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
  • v. (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
  • v. (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
  • v. (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with…
  • v. (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould…
  • v. (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
  • v. To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
  • n. Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

dove

  • n. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or…
  • n. (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
  • n. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
  • v. (chiefly Canada, US and English dialect) Strong simple past tense of dive.
  • v. (nonstandard) past participle of dive.

lounge

  • n. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
  • n. A domestic living room.
  • n. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
  • n. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
  • n. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
  • v. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

pigeon

  • n. One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species.
  • n. (slang) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
  • v. (transitive) to deceive with a confidence game.

poultry

  • n. domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
  • n. the meat from a domestic fowl.

short

  • adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
  • adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
  • adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
  • adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
  • adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
  • adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
  • adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
  • adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
  • adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
  • adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
  • adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
  • adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
  • adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
  • adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
  • adv. Unawares.
  • adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
  • adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
  • adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
  • n. A short circuit.
  • n. A short film.
  • n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
  • n. (baseball) A shortstop.
  • n. (finance) A short seller.
  • n. (finance) A short sale.
  • n. A summary account.
  • n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
  • n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
  • v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
  • v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
  • v. (transitive) To shortchange.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
  • v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
  • v. (obsolete) To shorten.
  • prep. Deficient in.
  • prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

sofa

  • n. An upholstered seat, typically having sides and back, long enough to accommodate two or more people.

squabby

  • adj. Short and thick; squabbish.

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