Question 1 · Quick check
squat
CEFRB2
/skwɒt/
verb · adjective · noun
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To sit low with your knees bent.
- 02
verb
Extra detailA position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
Examples
They started using that house as a squat.
After twisting your body, squat down.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 3
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 1
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningSitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
adjective
Extra meaningRelatively short or low, and thick or broad.
noun
Extra meaningAny of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
More examples
In contextI can't believe they squatted my favorite faction!
I know squat about nuclear physics.
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. […]
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Origin
verb
From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”). The sense “nothing” is synchronically analyzable as a clipping of diddly-squat, although diachronically the direction of derivation is uncertain.