“squatted” is a form of
squat
UK /skwɒt/ · US /skwɑt/ adjective, noun, verb
Forms squatter squattest squats squatting squatted
- adjective Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
- adjective Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
- noun A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- noun (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
- noun (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).
- noun A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
- noun A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
- noun A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
- noun (mining) A small vein of ore.
- noun A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
- verb To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- verb (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
- verb (weightlifting, transitive) To lift (a barbell) while performing a squat “I can squat 150 lbs.”
- verb To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
- verb To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
- verb (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
- verb (Internet) To cybersquat.
- verb (slang, board games) To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits. “I can't believe they squatted my favorite faction!”
- noun The angel shark (genus Squatina).
Synonyms
nothing knee bend squatting jack doodly-squat diddly-squat diddlysquat diddly-shit diddlyshit diddly diddley shit crouch scrunch scrunch up hunker hunker down chunky dumpy low-set squatty stumpy underslung
Etymology
From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” is synchronically analyzable as a clipping of diddly-squat, although diachronically the direction of derivation is uncertain.
From Latin squatina.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The angel fish (Squatina angelus
- verb To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
- verb To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
- verb To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs.]
Etymology [OE. squatten to crush, OF. esquater, esquatir (cf. It. quatto squat, cowering), perhaps fr. L. ex + coactus, p. p. cogere to drive or urge together. See Cogent, Squash, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “squat”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details