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Squab

/ˈskwɒb/

(sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken.

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📖 Definitions of "Squab"

noun

1
(sometimes attributive) A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken.
2
The meat of such a baby bird used as food.
3
A baby rook.
4
A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.

verb

1
To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
2
To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
3
To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.

adjective

1
Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
2
Unfledged; unfeathered.
"a squab pigeon"
3
Clumsy.
4
Curt; abrupt.

adverb

1
With a heavy fall; plump.

🔄 Synonyms of "Squab"

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
shortnoun	Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
dovenoun	(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
squabby	Short and thick

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Squab"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
dovenoun	(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
squabby	Short and thick
shortnoun	Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
broilersnoun	A chicken raised for meat.
squeakernoun	One who or that which squeaks.
utility pigeonnoun	A domesticated pigeon bred to grow quickly for the production of squab meat.
quabnoun	An unfledged bird; squab, or (by extension, obsolete) Something immature or unfinished.
pigeonnoun	(countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
poultnoun	A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).
poulardnoun	(countable) A young spayed hen (that is fattened for eating).
sucking-dovenoun	A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity.
pigeonrynoun	A birdhouse for pigeons; a dovecote.
birdnoun	An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
ducklingnoun	A young duck.
fowlnoun	A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
hen pigeonnoun	A female pigeon.
quailnoun	Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
quail dovenoun	Alternative spelling of quail-dove (Geotrygon spp., Starnoenas spp.) [Any of several species of bird in the genera Geotrygon and Starnoenas of the pigeon family found in the Americas.]
petitnoun	(printing, dated, French and German contexts) Synonym of brevier.
quail-dovenoun	Any of several species of bird in the genera Geotrygon and Starnoenas of the pigeon family found in the Americas.