[ US /ˈskwɑti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
    some people seem born to be square and chunky
    a little church with a squat tower
    a stumpy ungainly figure
    a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
    a squatty red smokestack
    dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears
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How To Use squatty In A Sentence

  • And she fitted well into the homely scene: short and somewhat "squatty" of form, red-haired, freckle-faced and pug-nosed. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
  • The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
  • In the present instance, to prevent what is called a "squatty" appearance, and also to give additional headway, the side walls were carried up some twenty inches above the ground line. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings
  • The 'squatty' eyed the gesticulating Manarkan and spoke, in a beautifully modulated deep bass voice, to a supple, lithe, pantherish girl with vertically-slitted yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a long and sinuous, meticulously-groomed tail. Masters Of The Vortex
  • I asked the head booker - a short squatty, fat, fabulous French girl called Monique - what to do. Evening Standard - Home
  • a squatty red smokestack
  • A few squatty Mercury coupes, some open-engine hot rods, two pick-ups with chrome tractor trailer exhaust stacks and an assortment of sporty cars were parked on the lawn at the correct address. Cucumbertini
  • The "squatty" looking clock tower, which appears as if part of a church spire, had been carried away by a high wind and dropped down on this embankment. Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"
  • The clerk, Kenneth, a squatty man with an Afro, looked up from his Sports Illustrated and said, My man, Marty. Talking Heads « A Fly in Amber
  • A "young, short, 'kind of squatty'" man has reportedly been harassing female commuters repeatedly during rush hour on the N Judah train by "humping" them and then jumping off the train when discovered. NBC Bay Area -
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