a. [f. SQUAB sb. or a.] Low and stout; squat, thick-set.
1754. Connoisseur, No. 5. 28. A short squabby gentleman of a gross and corpulent make.
1780. Mirror, No. 88. Mrs. Deborah is … in her person thick and squabby.
1841. J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, I. 64. Judy was a good-looking girl, though of the species called squabby.
1845. Tait’s Mag., XII. 39. The squabby cob maintained his even pace.
1875. G. Macdonald, Malcolm, III. xv. 202. Over the kitchen-fire, like an evil spirit of the squabby order, crouched Mrs. Catanach.
Comb. 1848. Geo. Eliot, in Cross, Life (1885), I. 17. You chubby-faced, squabby-nosed Europeans owe your commerce, your arts, your religion, to the Hebrews.
