Also 9 dial. squob. [Imitative.] a. int. (See quot.)
a. 1625. Fletcher, Women Pleas’d, I. i. I should be loath to see ye Come fluttering down like a young Rook, cry squab, And take ye up with your brains beaten into your buttocks.
b. adv. With a heavy fall or squash.
1692. R. L’Estrange, Fables, Eagle & Tort., 192. The Eagle took him up a matter of Steeple-high into the Air, and … dropt him down, Squab upon a Rock.
1847. Halliw. s.v. Squob, He throwed him down squob. Sussex.
1890. Glouc. Gloss., 149. Er came down squob.
