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squabashing

squabashing is the present participle and gerund 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 squabashing

What is squabashing the present participle and gerund of?
Squabashing is the present participle and gerund of squabash.

Words near squabashing in the dictionary

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

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