absquatulate

Senso (Inglese)

To leave quickly or in a hurry; to depart, flee.

Traduzioni

fortlaufen

er vanonder muizen

'm smeren

er vanonder trekken

esconder-se

evada-se

Pronunciato come (IPA)
/æb.ˈskwɑt͡ʃ.ʊ.leɪt/
Etimologia (Inglese)

Attested since the 1830s in American English, a jocular mock-Latin word. Blend of abscond + squat + perambulate, as ab- (“away (from)”) (as in abscond) + squat + *-ulate (as in perambulate, properly -ate), hence meaning “get up (from a squat) and depart (quickly)”. The middle portion was perhaps influenced by -le (“(frequentative)”) and the dialectal term squattle (“depart”); compare contemporary skedaddle.

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