A.Word.A.Day: absquatulate

[annabanana]

PRONUNCIATION: (ab-SKWOCH-uh-layt)

MEANING:
verb intr.: To leave in a hurry; to flee.

USAGE:
This administration is attempting to absquatulate with a huge slice of the American pie.


(usage, mine)
http://wordsmith.org/words/absquatulate.html

[TexasObserver]

1. Great word.

It's been a long time since I've seen a word I had never read or heard before.

Absquatulate. The dictionary I used suggests it is used to describe absconding, so that leaving AND taking something, such as by graft, fraud or embezzlement, would be an appropriate event. Your usage is correct, of course.

I'm going to have to use that today!

[annabanana]

2. I like this one:

We should sit here and do nothing while Bernake & Paulson absquatulate with 1/3rd of the Economy stuffed in their shorts?

[TexasObserver]

7. It is the perfect word to describe the Paulson Bank Heist.

Spell "absquatulates."

Could you use it in a sentence?

While Paulson absquatulates with the cash, Ben Bernacke lovingly cups Paulson's balls.

[boobooday]

3. Wow, a yummy mouthful of a word n/t

[BeFree]

4. ...

they just aren't absquatulating fast enough for me. What we have here is a failure to have them absquatulate sooner and with less money.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Yuppers, we republicons are totally absquatulacious. Smirk." - Commander aWol

[annabanana]

6. hee hee

fun with words...

[SpiralHawk]

8. Absquatlutely

[struggle4progress]

9. Um ... I don't think this "word" is part of the Queen Mother's English

And I strongly suspect that the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary does not view it with approval

[LeftHander]

10. You don't get JACK SQUAT....I'm outta here....nt

[robinlynne]

11. attempting?

[mcg]

12. etymology ...

absquatulate XIX. joc. formation with reminiscence of abscond, squat, perambulate.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-absquatulate.html

1837, "Facetious U.S. coinage" , perhaps rooted in mock-Latin negation of squat "to settle."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=absquatulate

Mock-Latinate formation, purporting to mean “to go off and squat elsewhere”.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/A0028300.html

[RedCappedBandit]

13. I will be replacing "bounce" with "absquatulate"

:)

yo im absquatulating outta dis $#%@#, this party blows