Definition of Squabash

1. v. t. To crush; to quash; to squash.

Definition of Squabash

1. Verb. (Scotland slang dated transitive) To crush; to quash; to squash. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Squabash

1. to crush [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: crush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squabash

spyrytual
spyrytuall
spyware
sq-18506
sq.
sq ft
sq in
sq yd
sqft
sqn
sqrt
squab-chick
squab pie
squab pies
squabash (current term)
squabashed
squabashes
squabashing
squabbed
squabber
squabbest
squabbier
squabbiest
squabbing
squabbish
squabble
squabbled
squabbler
squabblers

Literary usage of Squabash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1867)
"I confess I was scarcely prepared to find Brougham audacious enough to play the thunder-claimer over again, SQ soon after that squabash of Canning's ..."

2. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1867)
"I confess I was scarcely prepared to find Brougham audacious enough to play the thunder-claimer over again, so soon after that squabash of Canning's ..."

3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"squabash, s. A splutter, SO which a spur is fastened, Ettr. For. " As for a squabash when he does kick, wha's to mak it ?" The Steam-boat, p. 293. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1886)
"North. No technical terms of art in poetry ? . . . Lend me your ears. Here are some verses that give all such shallow and senseless critics the squabash ! ..."

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