a. Now dial. and U.S. [Cf. SQUAD a.] Short and thick-set: squat, squab.
1593. Rich, Greenes Newes, G 3 b. He was a fatte squaddy Monke, that had beene well fedde in some Cloyster.
1840. Spurdens, Suppl. Voc. E. Anglia, Squaddy, squoddy; short of stature, and sturdy.
1845. [Seba Smith], Lett. J. Downing, i. 34 (Bartlett). I hadn’t hardly got down…. And in come a great, stout, fat, squaddy woman.
