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bum-squabbled

bum-squabbled is the alternative form of bum squabbled.

bum-squabbled is the simple past and past participle of bum-squabble.

Meaning of bum squabbled

Adjective

bum squabbled (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, slang) Discomfited; perplexed and defeated.
    • If he didn't look bumsquabbled it's a pity.1835, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: Or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick

Questions about bum-squabbled

What is bum-squabbled the alternative form of?
Bum-squabbled is the alternative form of bum squabbled.

Words near bum-squabbled in the dictionary

  1. bum-rush
  2. bum-rushed
  3. bum-rushes
  4. bum-rushing
  5. bum-squabble
  6. bum-squabbled
  7. bum-squabbles
  8. bum-squabbling
  9. bum-sucker
  10. bum-suckers
  11. bum-sucking

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