squatter
noun
[ ˈskwɒtə ]
• a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land.
• "the police moved in and evicted the squatters"
• a large-scale sheep or cattle farmer.
• "one of the wealthiest and most prominent squatter families of northern Victoria"
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,
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.
