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squabashes

squabashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of squabash.

Meaning of squabash

Verb

squabash (third-person singular simple present squabashes, present participle squabashing, simple past and past participle squabashed)

  1. (Scotland, dated, slang, transitive) To crush, quash or squash.
    • January 17 1827, Walter Scott, diary
      his satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashed at one blow a set of coxcombs

Questions about squabashes

What is squabashes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Squabashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of squabash.

Words near squabashes in the dictionary

  1. squab chicks
  2. squab pie
  3. squab pies
  4. squabash
  5. squabashed
  6. squabashes
  7. squabashing
  8. squabbed
  9. squabbing
  10. squabbish
  11. squabble

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