Squat

Definition: Squat

Squat

Adjective

1. Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure".

2. Having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground.

Noun

1. Exercising by repeatedly assuming a squatting position; strengthens the leg muscles.

2. The act of assuming or maintaining a squatting position.

Verb

1. Sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting".

2. Be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low".

3. Occupy (a dwelling) illegally.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "squat" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Education

Physics

Slang

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Squat

Breadth, Thickness

Thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.

Depression

Sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline; (be horizontal).

Littleness

Adjective: little; small; (in quantity); minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; (unimportant); exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short.

Location

Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.

Lowness

Adjective: low, neap, debased; nether, nether most; flat, level with the ground; lying low; Verb: crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate; (horizontal).

Shortness

Adjective: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky, decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise; summary.

Crosswords: Squat

Czech (squat), French (squatting).

See, the great thing about animation is that you don't have to pay the actors squat. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

He makes us squat when we piss. (Major Payne; writing credit: Joe Connelly; Bob Mosher)

Our team is red hot, your team ain't doodley squat! (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra)

Do wedding vows mean squat to you people? (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

You haven't told me squat. (Walking Shadow; writing credit: Robert B. Parker;)

I don't have diddly squat (Soak Up the Sun; performing artist: SHERYL CROW)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On, II (reference)

• Space Brat 3: The Wrath of Squat (reference)

• Squat Theatre (reference)

• The Squat Pear Principle: Why Managers Rise or Fall (reference)

• The Wrath of Squat (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hawk Squat! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A squat young man came out of the porch, a leather portfolio tucked under his armpit.

The two men squat on their hams and the women and children listen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Burma

There continued to be credible reports that prisoners were forced to squat or assume stressful, uncomfortable, or painful positions for lengthy periods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "squat": squat down ♦ squat in ♦ squat snipe ♦ squat vault. Additional references.

Beginning with "squat": squat-dwellers, squat-thrust, squat-urn, squat-urns.

Ending with "squat": diddly-squat.

Afrikaans

hurk (cower, crouch). (various references)

Albanian

shulak (shout, square built, stump, stumpy, thickset), ulem përdhe, ulem në bisht, rri galiç, mbledhje (accumulation, addition, assemblage, assembly, clearing, collection, congregation, contraction, convocation, council, erection, furl, gathering, Ingathering, meeting, muster, picking, proceedings, rally, reaping, retraction, round up, session, shrinkage, sitting, summation, turn out), galiç. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقرفس, ‏متكرفس, ‏قصير وثخين (stubby), ‏قصير (low, scrubby, short, shortened, squabby, stumpy), ‏تقرفص, ‏جلس القرفصاء, ‏جالس القرفصاء (cross-legged), ‏جاثم, ‏جثم (crouch, perch, roost), ‏جثوم (crouch, squatting), ‏إحتل أرضا بغير حق, ‏إحتل (conquer, occupy, overrun, take, take up), ‏ربض (crouch), ‏دحداح. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сядам (perch, seat, sit, sit down, sit up, take a seat, take seats), клякане (knee bend), клякам, клеча, настанявам се (check in, ensconce oneself, perch, settle), нисък и дебел (squab), прикляквам (cower), приклякам, покляквам, дундест (fubsy, podgy, pudgy, squabby, tubby). (various references)

Chinese 

蹲坐, 蹲 (crouch), 踞 (be based upon). (various references)

Czech

squat, sedící na bobku, sedìt na bobku (hunker, sit on one's haunches), zavalitý (chunky, dumpy, podgy, stocky, stout, stubby), podsaditý (chunky, stocky, stumpy, thickset), podřep (knee bend), nastìhovat se bezprávnì, dřepìt (sit on one's haunches). (various references)

Danish

squat, trimforandring som foelge af skibets hastighed. (various references)

Dutch

in elkaar duiken (cower, crouch), hurken (cower, crouch). (various references)

Esperanto

kaŭri (cower, crouch). (various references)

Faeroese

húka (cower, crouch). (various references)

Farsi 

محل چمباتمه زنی , چمباتمه زدن (Ruck), چاق وخپل , قوزکردن (Hump). (various references)

Finnish

olla kyykyssä, laskeutua kyykkyyn, kyyristyä (cower, crouch), kyykistyä (crouch), kököttää. (various references)

French

accroupissement (squatting), être accroupi. (various references)

German

kauern (be huddled, cower, crouch), hocken (cower, crouch, perch, sit about, sit around, to crouch). (various references)

Greek 

κάθομαι σταυροπόδι, κοντόχονδροσ (chanky, chubby, dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly poly, squab, squatty, stocky, stumpy, tubby), κοντοκάθημαι, βύθισμα πρύμνης, εγκαθίσταμαι στη γή άνευ δικαιώματοσ, οκλάζω (sit on my knees). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתפוס קרקע, לשבת בשפיפ�", לפלוש (intrude, invade, obtrude, trespass), שפוף (bent, crouched, droopy, stooping), �'וץ ורחב. (various references)

Hungarian

guggoló (squatter), zömök (dumpy, podgy, squattish, squatty, stocky, stodgy, stubby, stumpy, thick-set). (various references)

Indonesian

nongkrong (hang out, idle, sit around doing nothing), cangkung, bercengkung, bercangkung (hunker). (various references)

Italian

squat, tozzo (Square, square built, stocky, stubby, thickset), tarchiato (dumpy, pudgy, Square, stocky, thickset), rannicchiarsi (cringe, crouch, snuggle), occupare abusivamente (mala fide occupier), accovacciarsi (crouch), accosciarsi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スクリュープロペラ船 (scraper, screw, screw ship, screwball, scroll, skate, skateboard, skater, skating, skating rink, sucrose). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スクワット . (various references)

Korean 

웅크리기. (various references)

Manx

soie cosaayl (sitting on haunches, squatting), skeltey (squatting), skelt, scuttagh (stumpy), muttagh (stumpy), lhie (dovetail, hang, lay, lie, lie down, repose, setting, settle, settling), jingit (crammed, cramped, crowded, crushed, jammed, packed, pressed, squeezed, thronged, wedged). (various references)

Pig Latin

atsquay

Portuguese

sentar-se (sit, take a seat, to sit oneself down), postura acocorada, pessoa atarracada (pudge), estardecócoras (cower, crouch), estaragachado (cower, crouch), empopamento, alapardar-se, agachar-se (cower, crouch), agachamento, acocorar-se (crouch), acocoramento. (various references)

Romanian

se ghemui (cower, crouch, cuddle, huddle up, nuzzle, snuggle). (various references)

Russian 

свернуться в клубок (curl up, nuzzle), сидеть на корточках (squatty), корточки, коренастый (cobby, dump, stocky, stubby, stumpy, thickset, well-set), приседать (cower, crouch, duck a curtsy, duck curtsy). (various references)

Scottish

crùb (bed recess, crouch), ceigeineach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spustiti se u čučanj, zdepast (chunky, dumpy, podgy, squab, squatty, stocky, stubby, stumpy, thickset, tubby), naseliti se bez dozvole, čučati, čučanj (crouching position). (various references)

Spanish

sentarse (seat oneself, sit, sit down, sit oneself, sitting down), rechoncho (chubby, chunky, plump, podgy, pudgy, stocky, stubby, thickset, tubby), ocupación illegal, establecerse sin derecho, empopamiento, emersión (emersion), desproporcionadamente bajo, comunidad de squatters, agacharse (bend, bob down, cower, crouch, drop, drop down, duck, hunker down, stoop), ñangotarse. (various references)

Swedish

huka sig ned. (various references)

Thai

นั่งยองๆ, อ้วนเตี้ย (stocky, stubby), การนั่งยองๆ, หมอบ. (various references)

Turkish

kurulmak (be built, be founded, be set up, ensconce oneself, install oneself, settle down), izinsiz yerleşmek, izinsiz yerleşme, güdük (stubby, stumpy), bodur (brief, dumpy, dwarf, low, podgy, pudgy, punch, scrub, scrubby, short, shortie, shorty, shrimp, squabby, stocky, stumpy, stunted), bastıbacak, başkasının arazisine kurulmak, bücür (brief, dwarf, runt, short, shorty, squirt), araziye sahip çıkmak, alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, swab, swob, vile, villainous), çömelmiş, çömelmek (cower, crouch, crouch down, hunch, hunch up, park oneself), çömelme (crouch, crouching, squatting), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, subside). (various references)

Turkmen 

зommalmak (curtsy). (various references)

Ukrainian

струс (concussion, jar, shake, shake up, shaking, tremor), скорчений, самочинно оселюватися на незайнятій землі, синець (bruise, shiner, sore, suffusion, wipe), сидіти навпочіпки (hunker, hunker down), сидіння навпочіпки, приземкуватий (fubsy, podgy, punch, squabby), припадати до землі. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ng�"i xổm, sự ng�"i ch�"m chỗm, thế ng�"i xổm, ng�"i xổm, ng�"i ch�"m chỗm mập lùn. (various references)

Welsh

cyrcydu (cower). (various references)

esquatir. (various references)

h�ken. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "squat": squatly, squatness, squatnesses, squats, squatted, squatter, squattered, squattering, squatters, squattest, squattier, squattiest, squatting, squatty. (additional references)

Words ending with "squat": diddlysquat. (additional references)

Words containing "squat": absquatulate, absquatulated, absquatulates, absquatulating, sasquatch, sasquatches. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquat, Quat, Saurat, siquat, sqa, sqat, sqaul, sqea, squa, squach, squag, squai, squait, squak, squan, squao, squap, squar, squart, squate, squav, squay, sque, squear, squi, squic, squiet, squif, squig, squilt, squip, squite, squiv, squiz, squot, squott, sqwat, suta. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: qats, taus, utas.

-2 letters: qat, qua, sat, sau, suq, tas, tau, uta, uts.

-3 letters: as, at, ta, us, ut.

+1 letter: quants, quarts, quotas, squats.

+2 letters: acquest, acquits, asquint, diquats, equates, loquats, quartes, quartos, quatres, quintas, squatly, squatty.

+3 letters: acquests, aliquots, antiques, aquarist, aquatics, aquavits, banquets, cumquats, equators, equiseta, kumquats, liquates, opaquest, parquets, quadrats, quaestor, quakiest, quantics, quartans, quarters, quartets, quartics, quartzes, quetzals, quinnats, quintals, quintans, quintars, racquets, squamate, squarest, squatted, squatter, tequilas.

+4 letters: acquaints, antiquers, aquanauts, aquarists, aquatints, aquatones, aqueducts, bequeaths, chaquetas, coequates, cotqueans, equations, maquettes, paraquats, paraquets, paroquets, pratiques, quadrants, quadrates, quaestors, quaggiest, quaintest, qualities, qualmiest, quantiles, quantizes, quantongs, quarterns, quartiles, quartzose, quatorzes, quatrains, queasiest, queaziest, quetzales, quintains, requitals, sasquatch, sequacity, sequestra, squatness, squatters, squattest, squattier, squatting, squawroot.