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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
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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