squat
Significado (English)
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- Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
- Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
Synonyms
sit on one’s heels
squat down
crouch down
diddley
diddly-shit
diddlyshit
scrunch up
knee bend
low-set
squat about
be squatting
roly poly
thick-set
be lame
square-built
bending over
squatting posture
short and plump
vessel squat
chanky
sit on my knees
drop down
encroach upon
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/skwɒt/
Etimoloxía (English)
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.
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