squat
verb
[ skwɒt ]
• crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs.
• "I squatted down in front of him"
Similar:
crouch (down),
hunker (down),
sit on one's haunches,
sit on one's heels,
sit,
bend down,
bob down,
duck down,
hunch,
cower,
cringe,
scooch,
• unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land.
• "eight families are squatting in the house"
squat
adjective
• short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.
• "he was muscular and squat"
Similar:
stocky,
dumpy,
stubby,
stumpy,
short,
thickset,
heavily built,
sturdy,
sturdily built,
heavyset,
chunky,
solid,
burly,
beefy,
cobby,
mesomorphic,
pyknic,
nuggety,
fubsy,
low,
small,
stunted,
squat
noun
• a squatting position.
• a building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so.
• "a basement room in a North London squat"
• short for diddly-squat.
• "I didn't know squat about writing plays"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel’ (see cogent). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th century.
