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单词 at squat
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at (the or a) squat
3. at (the or a) squat, in a squatting or crouching attitude, esp. that assumed by a hare when sitting. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > crouch or squat [phrase]
at (the or a) squat1580
to crinkle in the hams1607
on one's hunkers1756
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 103 One runneth so fast you will neuer catch hir, the other is so at the squat, you can neuer finde hir.
1622 N. Breton Strange Newes in Wks. (1879) II. 6/1 Hunting they vse little, but to finde a Hare at squat.
1670 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd 191 You may chance to see..on the ground a brace or two of Hares at squot.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 203 An old Grandam Ape, when, with a Grace, She sits at squat, and scrubs her Leathern Face.
figurative.1623 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 280 The Rhetian business and the League depending thereon, which made so full a cry is, methinks, at a squat.1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 7 And ev'ry Child hates Shylock, tho' his Soul Still sits at squat, and peeps not from its hole.
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