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squaw
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context now offensive English) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squaw \Squaw\ (skw[add]), n. [Massachusetts Indian squa, eshqua; Narragansett squ[^a]ws; Delaware ochqueu, and khqueu; used also in compound words (as the names of animals) in the sense of female.] A female; a woman, especially a married woman; a wife; ...
Usage examples of squaw.
From among the squaws and children gathered behind the warriors arose anguished wails--the wives and children of Mangas Colorado had heard.
Hannah Dustan and the nurse fell to the share of a family consisting of two warriors, three squaws, and seven children, who separated from the rest, and, hunting as they went, moved northward towards an Abenaki village, two hundred and fifty miles distant, probably that of the mission on the Chaudiere.
A couple of experienced squaws would already have had both buffalos skinned, gutted, butchered, and all of the meat prepared for immediate consumption or further processing.
The protrusions of natural rocks like Camelback Mountain and Squaw Peak to the north or South Mountain to the south turned the whole valley into a Zen garden maintained by giants.
With the help of the squaws, he slung the tusks atop the ATV, then emptied the kegs of firewater into the gas tank, and cleaned and restacked the back of the truck.
The other squaws pulled it into the city, then they threw the rope back over the wall, croaked like a frog and chirped like a cricket, and Lotsa Smoke sent up the second barrel of firewater, and at last hurried over.
East Bay Express, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Ann Heiney, and the UC Irvine Composition programs.
Navaho squaw and one papoose or more, and sometimes the beehive-shaped hodags in which the Navahos wintered.
In addition to these proper names we have from the Indians wigwam, squaw, hammock, tomahawk, canoe, mocassin, hominy, etc.
The folks, wanted me to stay and be a deputy sheriff, but I taken a good look at the female population and seen that the only single woman in town was a Piute squaw.
In the twilight Siena wended his way home and placed eight moose tongues before the whimpering squaws.
She knew the tales of squaws being beaten to death by drunken white men were true, and she unconsciously soothed a hand over a bruised cheek.
Wiry ones like squaws, or the silken strength of a woman like Juliana.
Craning his head and neck he watched three squaws who tended a haunch of deer meat suspended over a bed of glowing coals.
As she studied the tall, slender, hardy plant, she recalled Roth saying that in the summer the squaws gathered the reeds and wove them into baskets.