OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 15657

squat

/skwɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
rechoncho • retaco
Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges […]
What in the midst lay but the Tower itself? / The round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart, / Built of round stone, without a counterpart / In the whole world. […]
de cuclillas • en cuclillas
Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
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