Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones.
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Squab
/ˈskwɒb/
Synonyms for "squab" (108 found)
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Translations
15 translations across 13 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乳鴿肉 /乳鸽肉 noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Esperanto
2 entries- kolombidaĵo noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
- kolombidoviando noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Finnish
1 entries- kyyhkysenliha noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
French
1 entries- pigeonneau noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
German
2 entries- Täubchen noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
- Täubchenfleisch noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Greek
1 entries- πιτσούνι noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Korean
1 entries- 비둘기고기 noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- голубчецина noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Portuguese
1 entries- borracho noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Russian
1 entries- голубя́тина noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Spanish
1 entries- pichón noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thịt bồ câu noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Volapük
1 entries- pijunülamit noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
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.
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[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.
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Another feature new to British Railways is the provision of two-position adjustable seats in the first class compartments. In this design, the seat squab can be pulled out some six inches, the seat back being attached to the seat to give a less upright sitting position.
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