Etymology

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Swedish skvabb
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  1. Swedish · derived fromskvabb“fatty, flabby”
  2. English todaysquab

Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.