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squat

adj
/skwɒt/UK/skwɑt/US/skwɔt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Old French es- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin co- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin cōgō Latin coāctusder. Old French quatir Old French esquatirder. Middle English squatten English squat From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”). The sense “nothing” is synchronically analyzable as a clipping of diddly-squat, although diachronically the direction of derivation is uncertain.

  1. derived from coāctus
  2. derived from esquatir
  3. inherited from squatten

Definitions

  1. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.

    • What in the midst lay but the Tower itself? / The round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart, / Built of round stone, without a counterpart / In the whole world. […]
    • On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges […]

  2. Sitting on one's heels

    Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

    • [H]im there they found, / Squat like a toad, cloſe at the ear of Eve, / Aſſaying by his deviliſh art to reach / The organs of her fancy', and with them forge / Illuſions as he liſt, phantaſms and dreams, […]

  3. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

    • Sit in a squat, with your feet a comfortable distance apart.
  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

    1. Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending…

      Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

    2. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.

      • Your dumb self can't appreciate the freedom in my thought / The weak sense of autonomy when I'm flipping in my squat

    3. A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the…

      A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.

    4. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting

      A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.

    5. Clipping of diddly-squat

      Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.

      • I know squat about nuclear physics.
      • We didn't ask for rent, but we assumed they'd help around the house. But they don't do squat.
      • "Joke's on you. They're used to me mostly talking about superficial stuff. Nobody's going to notice squat."

    6. A small vein of ore.

    7. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

      • A Mineral, very ponderous, and probably holding Tin. […] 'Twas part of a Squat, at Hewas-Work; not far from Polgouth, in St. Stephen's Liberty, Cornwall.

    8. Squat effect.

    9. A sudden or crushing fall.

      • bruises, and squats, and falls, which often kill others

    10. A dental practice set up from scratch instead of joining an existing one.

      • […] needs many patients to be viable — definitely not for the first six months of a squat. Ron mentioned that many graduates ask representatives for advice regarding squats and those he has not deterred have done well […]

    11. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

      • He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.

    12. To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one…

      To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

    13. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.

      • Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.

    14. To sit close to the ground

      To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.

      • "But there seemed to be little satisfaction got out of this run; every moment the hare squatted, and the hounds lost the scent time after time."

    15. To bruise or flatten by a fall

      To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.

    16. To cybersquat.

      • The old homepage for L2TP, www.l2tpd.org, has been squatted by a domain squatter. A malicious person could reinstate this domain with malicious code on it.

    17. To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.

      • I can't believe they squatted my favorite faction!

    18. The angel shark (genus Squatina).

The neighborhood

Derived

absquatulate, air squat, Anderson squat, Asian squat, asquat, belt squat, bottoms up squat, box squat, breathing squat, Bulgarian split squat, count for squat, deep squat, flamingo squat, front squat, goblet squat, hack squat, Hindu squat, hot squat, jack squat, jockey squat, jump squat, outsquat, overhead squat, pin squat, pistol squat, plié squat, pop a squat, safety squat, shrimp squat, sissy squat, Slav squat, Smith squat, split squat, squat cage, squat effect, squat lobster, squatly, squatment, squatness, squat pad · +16 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for squat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA