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" (110 found)
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73 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- περιστεριδεύς noun (young dove or pigeon)
Arabic
2 entries- جَوْزَل noun (young dove or pigeon)
- زُغْلُول noun (young dove or pigeon)
Armenian
3 entries- աղավնյակ noun (young dove or pigeon)
- աղավնու ձագ noun (young dove or pigeon)
- դոխ noun (young dove or pigeon)
Bulgarian
2 entries- неоперено пиле noun (young dove or pigeon)
- твърда възглавница noun (thick cushion)
Catalan
1 entries- colomí noun (young dove or pigeon)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 乳鴿 /乳鸽 noun (young dove or pigeon)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 乳鴿 /乳鸽 noun (young dove or pigeon)
- 乳鴿肉 /乳鸽肉 noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
- 墊子 /垫子 noun (thick cushion)
Czech
1 entries- holoubě noun (young dove or pigeon)
Esperanto
3 entries- kolombidaĵo noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
- kolombido noun (young dove or pigeon)
- kolombidoviando noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Finnish
4 entries- istuintyyny noun (thick cushion)
- kyyhkysenliha noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
- kyyhkysenpoikanen noun (young dove or pigeon)
- mustavariksen poikanen noun (young rook)
French
4 entries- bébé corneille noun (young rook)
- bébé freux noun (young rook)
- colombeau noun (young dove or pigeon)
- colombelle noun (young dove or pigeon)
Georgian
1 entries- ხუნდი noun (young dove or pigeon)
German
4 entries- Jungtaube noun (young dove or pigeon)
- Taubenbaby noun (young dove or pigeon)
- Taubenküken noun (young dove or pigeon)
- Täubchen noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Greek
4 entries- μαξιλάρα noun (thick cushion)
- νεογνό τρυπανοκόρακα noun (young rook)
- νεοσσός τρυπανοκόρακα noun (young rook)
- πιτσούνι noun (young dove or pigeon)
Hungarian
4 entries- díványpárna noun (thick cushion)
- galambfióka noun (young dove or pigeon)
- varjúfióka noun (young dove or pigeon)
- varjúfióka noun (young rook)
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)
Polish
3 entries- gawronię noun (young rook)
- gołąbek noun (young dove or pigeon)
- gołębię noun (young dove or pigeon)
Portuguese
3 entries- borracho noun (young dove or pigeon)
- borracho noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
- coxim noun (thick cushion)
Russian
4 entries- голу́бка noun (young dove or pigeon)
- голубо́к noun (young dove or pigeon)
- голубя́тина noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
- голубёнок noun (young dove or pigeon)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- golubić noun (young dove or pigeon)
- golupče noun (young dove or pigeon)
- goluždravac noun (young rook)
Slovak
1 entries- holúbä noun (young dove or pigeon)
Spanish
3 entries- palomino noun (young dove or pigeon)
- pichón noun (young dove or pigeon)
- pichón noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Swedish
3 entries- duvunge noun (young dove or pigeon)
- råkunge noun (young rook)
- soffkudde noun (thick cushion)
Ukrainian
2 entries- голуб'я noun (young dove or pigeon)
- голубеня noun (young dove or pigeon)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thịt bồ câu noun (meat of a young dove or pigeon)
Volapük
2 entries- pijunül noun (young dove or pigeon)
- 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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