squattering
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editsquattering
- present participle and gerund of squatter
Adjective
editsquattering (comparative more squattering, superlative most squattering)
- (obsolete) Straggling; messy.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.17:
- It is a language (as are many others round about me) like to that of Poitou, Xaintonge, Angoulesme, Limosin, and Auvergne, squattering, dragling, and filthie.