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squaw

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5 lettersPronunciation /skwɔː/Part of speech nounSorted aqsuwStarts with SEnds with W0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. derogatory terms for an American Indian woman

Word origin

From Massachusett squàw (“woman”), from Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”). Cognate with Abenaki -skwa (“female, wife”), Mohegan-Pequot sqá, Cree iskwew / ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (iskeyw, “woman”), Ojibwe ikwe (“woman”). In the 1970s, some non-linguists began to claim that the word originally meant vagina; this has been discredited.

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  • The Indian maids, of course, turned out to be a few fat old squaws who knew all about white men.

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