squab

A fledgling (young) bird.

A fledgling (young) bird.

A fledgling (young) bird.

The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food.

Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.

A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.

a. 1744, Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86, On her large ſquab you find her ſpread, / Like a fat corpſe upon a bed, / That lies and ſtinks in ſtate.

[H]erds of shabby vampires, Jew and Christian, over-run the house, [...] punching the squabs of chairs and sofas with their dirty fists, touzling the feather-beds, opening and shutting all the drawers, balancing the silver spoons and forks, looking into the very threads of the drapery and linen, and disparaging everything.

To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

To furnish with squabs, or cushions.

To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.

Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice.

So on his Nightmare through the evening fog / Flits the squab fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog […].

Unfledged; unfeathered.

broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons precipitated from above

Clumsy.

Curt; abrupt.

Shy; coy.