squabash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwəˈbæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

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.
   • January 17 1827, Walter Scott, diary

     his satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashed at one blow a set of coxcombs

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “squabash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)