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bum squabbled

bum squabbled adjective: discomfited; perplexed and defeated. Also the simple past and past participle of bum squabble.

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
    • Our Yankee, who'd commenced the fight, and rather to be donnish meant, "Bumsquabbled" felt (as well he might), with genuine astonishment, And when, by aid of jury masts, he reached his native city, If he didn't look "tarnation streaked" and foolish "it's a pity."1866, A.R.W., “A Legend of the American War. A Regular "Jonathan," and No Mistake”, in Colburn's United Service Magazine, page 100

Also used as

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

Forms of bum squabbled

alternative formbum-squabbled
alternative formbumsquabbled

Questions about bum squabbled

What does bum squabbled mean?
Bum squabbled means discomfited; perplexed and defeated.
What part of speech is bum squabbled?
Bum squabbled is an adjective.

Words near bum squabbled in the dictionary

  1. bum shuffle
  2. bum shuffled
  3. bum shuffles
  4. bum shuffling
  5. bum squabble
  6. bum squabbled
  7. bum squabbles
  8. bum squabbling
  9. bum steer
  10. bum steers
  11. bum trip

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