absquatulate/absquatulation
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:55 pm
From Wiktionary: Blended jocular mock-Latin word. Arose in America in the 19th century (about 1837). Probably made up of the following parts: The Latin adverb and prefix ab, "away (from)", (maybe taken from abscond), the suffix -ate (maybe taken from perambulate or undulate), and the middle portion, "squatul", which might be a derivation of to squat. Obsolete by 1900.
absquatulation: the action of going away suddenly and squatting somewhere; making off, decamping.
absquatulation: the action of going away suddenly and squatting somewhere; making off, decamping.