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▪ I. ˈsquattering, vbl. n. [f. squatter v.] The action of the verb, in various senses.
1598Florio, Squacquarata,..a squattring, a squirting. 1611Cotgr., Espanchement, a disordered, or hastie squattering, spilling, sheeding, or pouring out. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xvi. 68 The Devil of any thing we do, but fizzling, farting, funking, squattering, dozing. 1894Crockett Raiders xiii. 121 We could hear..multitudinous squatterings in the water as of a thousand wounded wild ducks. ▪ II. ˈsquattering, ppl. a. [f. as prec.] That squatters, in senses of the verb.
1598Florio, Squacchera, a squattring soft turd. 1603― Montaigne ii. xvii. (1632) 361 It is a language..squattering, dragling, and filthie. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lxvii. 270 From Eighteen squattering Bonasi. 1865Alex. Smith Summer in Skye I. 108 As we approached, a duck burst from its face on ‘squattering’ wings. |