Mr. & Mrs. Webster (there is a good woman behind every man, customary saying) Ab-squat-u-late v.intr. ab-squat-u-late d ab-squat-u-lat-ing ab-squat-u-late s 1.a. To depart in a hurry; abscond: "Your horse has absquatulated!" (Robert M. Bird) b. To argue. {Mock-Latinate formation, purporting to mean "to go off and squat elsewhere"} Notes: The vibrant energy of American English sometimes appears in the use of Latin affixes to create jocular pseudo-Latin "learned" words. Midland absquatulate has a prefix ab-, "away from," and a suffix -ate, "to act upon in a specified manner," affixed to a none existent base from-squatul-,probably suggested by squat. Hence the whimsical absquatulate, "to squat away from." Another such coinage is Northern busticate, which joins bust with-icate by analogy with verbs like medicate. Southern argufy joins argue to a redundant-fy, "to make; cause to become." These creations are largely confined to regions of the United States where change is slow, and where the 19th century love for Latinate words and expression is till manifest. For example, Appalachian speech is characterized by the frequent use of recollect, aggravate, oblige, and other such works.