squabash

English

Verb

squabash (third-person singular simple present squabashes, present participle squabashing, simple past and past participle squabashed)

  1. (Scotland, slang, dated, transitive) To crush; to quash; to squash.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Last modified on 13 August 2012, at 08:16