To decamp, to disappear.
1837. Your blooded brown horse has absquotulated!—R. M. Bird, ‘Nick of the Woods,’ i. 117 (Lond.).
1837–40. Haliburton (N.E.D.) has absquatilate.
1840. I am only an hundred and twenty-five dollars worse than nothing, and live in daily fear of being compelled to ‘absquatulate,’ or ‘Swartwout,’ or whatever else the reader may choose to call it.—Knick. Mag., xvi. 480 (Dec.).
1840. We may speedily expect to hear of many more Whigs following the example of our absquatulating Cashier.—John P. Kennedy, ‘Quodlibet,’ p. 202 (1860).
1842. “The career of a foreign absquatulator” is sketched.—Spirit of the Times, Phila., June 20.
1842. When Mr. F. again called, the shingle had absquatulated from the shutter.—Id., June 29.
1842. “A Wharf Absquatulated.” Heading of a description of the accident.—Id., Nov. 7.
1843. A can of oysters was discovered in our office by a friend, and he absquatulated with it, and left us with our mouth watering.—Missouri Reporter, St. Louis, Feb. 2.
1845. “Money makes the mare go” is thus refined: “The circulating medium compels the female nag to absquatulate.”—St. Louis Reveille, Aug. 18.
1847. You might infer that land moves off,—cuts its stick,—absquatulates; but it is no such thing.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 47.
1848. Here’s jest a leetle horn a piece in the bottle—let’s licker one more round, and then absquattle.—W. E. Burton, ‘Waggeries,’ p. 17 (Phila.).
1851. Highly indignant, the gentleman remonstrated, nay recommended the ebony-complexioned waiter to “absquatulate,” without loss sof time.—Lady E. S. Wortley, ‘Travels in the U.S.,’ p. 120 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
1855.
| A pause was made for a reply | |
| To what had just been stated; | |
| But they the Giant could not spy; | |
| He had absquatulated. | |
Weekly Oregonian, Feb. 24. |
1855. Strayed, stolen, lost, absquatulated, muertoed, mime-loosed, or run away, one Alonzo Leland.—Id., Aug. 4.
1862. Rumor has it that a gay bachelor, who has figured in Chicago for nearly a year, has skedaddled, absquatulated, vamosed, and cleared out.—Rocky Mtn. News, Denver, May 10.
1862. We’ll jest keep close for a few days, and then absquatilate with the hosses, and scurry for Bolivar.—Harper’s Weekly, June 7, 363.
