Hypertext Webster Gateway: "squaw"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Squaw \Squaw\, 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; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the
Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.

{Old squaw}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Old}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

squaw
n : an American Indian woman


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