squattle

English

Etymology

squat +‎ -le?

Verb

squattle (third-person singular simple present squattles, present participle squattling, simple past and past participle squattled)

1. (intransitive, Scotland) To squat or sprawl; to duck into concealment.
   • 1821, John Galt, Annals of the parish: or, the chronicle of Dalmailing […] , page 56:

     They tarried about a week among us, living in tents, with their little ones squattling among the litter […]

   • 1877, John Timbs, James Mason, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art, page 46:

     Whenever they got to the water they threw themselves down and squattled into it. The moment they were in the water they acted just as if they were fishes.

   • 1900, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Dariel: A Romance of Surrey, page 425:

     He spread his face out in such a manner that there was nothing left but mouth; as a young cuckoo in a sparrow's nest, when his stepmother cannot satisfy him, squattles his empty body down, and distends himself into one enormous gape.