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squaw

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squaw  (skwô)
n.
1. Offensive A Native American woman, especially a wife.
2. Offensive Slang A woman or wife.
[Massachusett squa, younger woman.]
squaw
Noun
Offensive a Native American woman of N America [from a Native American language]
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Noun1.squawsquaw - an American Indian woman
American Indian, Indian, Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
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Hunt consented to take his squaw and two children on board also.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
, one of America's foremost captains of industry and the greatest man in California, be in love with a--a--the word stuck in my throat; yet by my own American standards Ajor could be nothing else; at home, for all her beauty, for all her delicately tinted skin, little Ajor by her apparel, by the habits and customs and manners of her people, by her life, would have been classed a squaw.
The People That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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