v., also absquotilate. [A factitious word, simulating a L. form (cf. abscond, gratulate) of American origin, and jocular use.] To make off, decamp.
1837–40. Haliburton, Clockmaker (1862), 363. Absquotilate it in style, you old skunk,… and show the gentlemen what you can do.
1858. Dow, Serm., I. 309, in Bartlett, Dict. Amer. Hope’s brightest visions absquatulate.
1861. J. Lamont, Seahorses, xi. 179. He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awaking, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.
