1837, "Facetious U.S. coinage" [Weekley], perhaps based on a mock-Latin negation of squat "to settle." Said to have been used by the U.S. Western character "Nimrod Wildfire" in the play "The Kentuckian," as re-written by British author William B. Bernard and staged in London in 1833. Related: Absquatulated; absquatulating.
权威例句
1. He prepared to absquatulate and head for the wilderness.
他准备逃往荒野去.
2. Book century writing is swung everywhere, study by oneself in scheduled time in the evening absquatulate.