[f. prec.] trans. To crush, squash, demolish.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XI. 88. When their darling was squabash’d At glorious Waterloo.
1827. Scott, Jrnl., 17 Jan. His satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashed at one blow a set of coxcombs.
1829. Newbern Spectator, 11 April, 3/2. During these spells, we certainly have at time lather-whacked and squabashed about us in a manner truly terrific to behold.
1843. Barham, Ingoldsby Leg. (ed. 2), Pref. In order utterly to squabash and demolish every gainsayer.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 Feb., 4/1. Mr. Ruskin is right in saying that J. S. Mill has been squabashed.
Hence Squabasher.
1827. Blackw. Mag., XXI. 650. That was a squabasher to the Elchee, who tried to back out of the argument. Ibid. (1841), L. 66. Sidney Smith,… squabasher of the cowardly … invention of the ballot-box.
