ˈsquaddy, a. Now dial. and U.S.
[Cf. squad a.]
Short and thick-set: squat, squab.
| 1593 Rich Greenes Newes G 3 b, He was a fatte squaddy Monke, that had beene well fedde in some Cloyster. 1840 Spurdens Suppl. Voc. E. Anglia, Squaddy, squoddy; short of stature, and sturdy. a 1848 ‘Major J. Downing’ May-day (Bartlett), I had hardly got seated, when in come a great, stout, fat, squaddy woman. |