n
(Scotland) direction; quarter
n
A position assumed by bending at the knees with one's feet flat on the ground and knees spread apart.
v
To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
adj
Like a couch potato; sedentary.
adj
(of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
adj
Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.
adj
That crouches or crouch.
n
(Britain, informal) A job or task that is easy to do; a position that requires little work or is undemanding; a sinecure.
n
(sports) In powerlifting, a special kind of squat movement in which the hips are lowered under the level of the knees.
adv
With one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.
adj
(Scotland) Out-and-out; plain; flat; flat-out.
n
Alternative form of ferd (“effort”) [(Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.]
n
(Scotland, Ireland, now rare) Something that is deserved; one's deserts.
n
(Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
n
(chiefly Scotland) Strength, power.
adv
(Scotland) Forwards, forward.
n
A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
v
To slouch, stoop, curl, or lean.
n
One who is stooped or hunched over.
v
Obsolete form of kneel. [(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.]
v
(Britain) To rest; to dwell.
n
(sociology) a lifestyle choice and social protest movement in China by some young people who reject societal pressures
v
(literally) To make the bed in which one has slept.
v
(West Country) To take root and begin to grow.
adj
(idiomatic) Alternative form of more than one can shake a stick at [Occurring in abundance; of a large quantity; many.]
v
(transitive) To move or place into a comfortable position
v
(Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.
n
(idiomatic) A period of extreme mental stress, often characterized by being homeless and being rejected by all friends and family.
v
(figuratively) to spend the night
adj
(Scotland) Far; distant.
n
A form of squat exercise, usually with a dumbbell held behind the legs while the heels are lifted off the ground, the torso remaining flat while the lifter leans backwards.
n
One who stays where they cannot be seen (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
v
(idiomatic) Of a homeless person, to sleep outdoors, particularly as opposed to sleeping in a shelter or similar.
n
The posture of someone who slouches.
v
(Scotland, dialect) To fix; remedy; put to rights.
v
To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
n
A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
n
(Australia, historical) A holding occupied by a squatter (senses 2 and 3)
adv
In a squatting position.
v
(transitive) To store in a secretive manner, to hide something for future use
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A stillion.
v
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
adv
With a stooping posture.
adv
(MTE, MLE, slang) usually added to the end of a sentence to add emphasis
v
(Scotland, Northern England) To need; to be bound or obligated to do something.
v
(intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
n
(Scotland, Tyneside) Gate.
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