A-squat

advb. phr. [A prep.¹ + SQUAT.] In a squatting posture, squatting.

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1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), I. xvi. 101. There was the odious Solmes sitting asquat between my mother and my sister.

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c. 1784. Rolliad, Ded. (1795), p. xiii.

	Where Wisdom sits a-squat, in starch disguise,
	Like Dulness couch’d, to catch us by surprise.

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1863. Browning, Sordello, I. Wks. III. 273. Crawl in then hag, and crouch asquat.

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