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squattling

squattling is the present participle and gerund of squattle.

Meaning of squattle

Verb

squattle (third-person singular simple present squattles, present participle squattling, simple past and past participle squattled)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To squat or sprawl; to duck into concealment.
    • They tarried about a week among us, living in tents, with their little ones squattling among the litter[…]1821, John Galt, Annals of the parish: or, the chronicle of Dalmailing […] , page 56

Questions about squattling

What is squattling the present participle and gerund of?
Squattling is the present participle and gerund of squattle.

Words near squattling in the dictionary

  1. squattings
  2. squattish
  3. squattle
  4. squattled
  5. squattles
  6. squattling
  7. squattocracies
  8. squattocracy
  9. squattocratic
  10. squatty
  11. squatty potties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squattling (page history and authors); squattle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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