squat

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
2. Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

Noun

1. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
2. Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
3. Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
4. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
5. A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
6. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
7. (Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.
8. A small vein of ore.
9. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
10. Squat effect.
11. (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.

Verb

1. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
2. To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
3. To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
4. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
5. To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
6. (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
7. (Internet) To cybersquat.
8. (slang) To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.

Noun

The angel shark (genus Squatina).

Concepts

s’accroupir

squat

être accroupi

accroupir

accroupissement

squatter

maison

🏠

merde

ramassé

s’asseoir

se recroqueviller

se tapir

se tenir accroupi

valet

accroupi

petit et épais

position accroupie

trapu

accroupissement du navire

s'accroupir

bâtiment

cric

domicile

édifice

immeuble

Synonymes

crouch

sit

🪑

dumpy

cower

hunker down

squatting

stumpy

podgy

squatty

sit on one’s heels

squat down

hunker

stocky

chunky

doodly-squat

crouch down

diddly-squat

diddly

diddlyshit

diddlysquat

diddly-shit

scrunch

scrunch up

diddley

sit down

squab

shit

💩

underslung

knee bend

bend down

jack

low-set

be squatting

squat about

thickset

occupy

kneel

perch

dwelling

compact

drop down

brief

chubby

deep

hutch

curtsy

carry

barrack

hut

🛖

curl up

Traductions

hocken

hurken

kauern

sich hocken

Hocke

kraakpand

agachamento

accovacciarsi

ocupar

casa occupata

edificio occupato

in elkaar duiken

agachar-se

okupa

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/skwɒt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: squatten

In summary

From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” may be the source or a derivation of diddly-squat.