Green’s Dictionary of Slang

squat, short and thick.

1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 316: I could not forbear smiling, for he was a fat squobby fellow.
1675		Wycherley Country-Wife IV iii: I am now no more interruption to ’em, when they sing or talk bawdy, than a little squab French page, who speaks no English.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk IV 272: Another long-shanked ugly rogue mounted on a pair of high-heeled wooden slippers, meeting a strapping, fusty, squobbed dowdy, says he to her, How is it, my top?
1702		T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 7: As thick about the waste, as the fat squab porter at the Griffin tavern in Fuller’s Rents.
1711		N. Ward Vulgus Britannicus VIII 86: Advanc’d a Red-fac’d squabby Fellow, / As odly shap’d as Punchionello.
1725		N. Ward Amorous Bugbears 40: The next Entertaining Figure that I happen’d to turn my Eyes upon, was, a squab Tun-gutted Mortal.
1748–49		Cleland Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 7: Squob-fat, red-faced, and at least fifty.
1759		O. Goldsmith Bee No. 2 n.p.: A French woman is a perfect architect in dress... She never tricks out a squabby Doric shape with Corinthian finery [F&H].
1759		O. Goldsmith Citizen of the World II lxv 13: Rock is remarkably squab, his great rival Franks is as remarkably tall.
1787		‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Peter’s Pension’ Works (1794) II 151: A comely, squabby, stout, two-handed dame.
1791		A. Pasquin Shrove Tuesday 59: Great P.P. Rubens pencill’d angels squab, / Because his rancid Helena was huge!
1795		‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Pindariana’ Works (1796) IV 284: The squabby Nymph of Bacon-bloom.
1812		G. Colman Yngr ‘Low Ambition’ in Poetical Vagaries 11: At three years old, squab, chubby-cheek’d and stupid.
1821		‘A Real Paddy’ Real Life in Ireland 193: The exciseman was a little squabby fellow, four feet high.
1826		Pierce Egan’s Life in London 19 Feb. 446/2: [A] flaxen-haired, short, squabby damsel, in an ‘undulating Leghorn,’ i.e. type of straw bonnet] and fine flowing shawl.
1837		‘The Life of a Disappointed Man’ in Bentley’s Misc. Sept. 271: A squabby, tyrannical, double-jointed pedagogue.
1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1863		G.A. Sala Breakfast in Bed 141: A squabby elderly woman in tights.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VII 1452: I thought of my adventure in my youth, with the fat, squabby, Devonshire woman’s bumhole.
1912		E. Pugh Harry The Cockney 45: I consider her a proud beauty, and I am sorry for other little boys who have scraggy mothers, squab mothers.
1950		(con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 41: A squabby, pale and plain little girl she was.
1959		A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 1: The squabby, middle-aged woman.