squattering
English
Etymology
From squatter + -ing.
Verb
squattering
- present participle of squatter
Adjective
squattering (comparative more squattering, superlative most squattering)
- (obsolete) Straggling; messy.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.17:
- It is a language (as are many others round about me) like to that of Poitou, Xaintonge, Angoulesme, Limosin, and Auvergne, squattering, dragling, and filthie.
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