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Squatty   /skwˈɑti/   Listen
Squatty

adjective
1.
Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature.  Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, stumpy.  "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"






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"Squatty" Quotes from Famous Books



... pleasing if properly placed. It is just the thing to fill in corners near buildings, to help define the turns in walks, and to use as hedges. Usually one shrub standing by itself is not nearly so pleasing as one tree by itself. It has a squatty and isolated appearance. There is a corner close by the school building where shrubs should go. Why? Because the place looks bare and staring, and the building is very ugly at that point; the shrubs would fill in the space, and make the ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw

... rocky hollow through which Chaney Creek ran to the river, lived the family who gave the brook its name. They were among the early pioneers of the county. In the squatty yellow stone house the present Chaney occupied his grandfather had stood a siege from Black Hawk all one summer day and night, until relieved by the garrison of Fort Edward. The family had not grown ...
— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.



Words linked to "Squatty" :   dumpy, little, squattiness, short



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