squab
- noun
- /skwɑb/
:
pichón
- Why either Mrs. Parsons or her boarder had bought and then thrown away a book on raising squabs for profit, Jackie couldn't say and didn't care.
Examples
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Improvise a slingshot from bicycle inner tube on the coast. Shoot seagulls in the city. Look for pigeons; if you can find where pigeons roost for the night, especially in an old building, sometimes you will find eggs and squabs for soup. Boil everything good.
Blog text (18) -
It's a squab.
Fiction book (1994) -
On the top half of the sign, there were game birds: five quail over four pigeons over eight squabs.
Fiction book (1992) -
In a barn on a squab farm near the town of Lake Casitas, California, they found a colony of mice in the throes of an epidemic.
Academic text (2005) -
Jackie reminds Gimp that squabs prefer barley during the molting season.
Fiction book (1996) -
She settled herself against the squabs and thought fleetingly of the children in every hamlet and town who had been gathering fodder for the bonfires that would blaze throughout the length of Great Britain.
Fiction book (1990) -
The nest was filled with squabs, waiting for their parents to bring food.
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Farmers often raise squabs to ensure a fresh supply of meat for restaurants.
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The park was home to several squabs, still learning to spread their wings.
Synonyms
12
3.5
A very young animal that has just come out of its egg, like a bird or turtle
11
1.0
A very young bird without enough feathers to fly or leave the nest
2
5.6
A young bird that cannot fly and stays in the nest
1
1.2
A baby bird that is not yet an adult
Compounds
- UK
A seafood that can be deadly because its ovaries and liver contain a strong nerve poison
How Young
Surface Forms
Etymology
Squab means a young, unfledged pigeon and the name likely comes from an old word for 'short and round', similar to squat; that's why squab makes you picture a small, plump nestling that cannot fly yet.