squaw

IPA: skwˈɔ

noun

  • (now offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
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Examples of "squaw" in Sentences

  • The girl's team mascot is a squaw.
  • Squaw Peak can be seen in the fore ground.
  • The squaws and maidens of both tribes wept.
  • The Squaw, apparently never it's official name.
  • He had also taken part in the failed squaw campaign .
  • The squaws and children were got out and fed and warmed.
  • It is dark and does not have the Squaw centred in the frame.
  • Little Squaw Creek drains an area cut by many auriferous veins.
  • Doubletop Mountain is flanked to the southwest by Squaw's Bosom.
  • The use of the term squaw as a name for the mountain is controversial.
  • I understand your and others' concern about the use of the word "squaw."
  • Jennine Jacob, a fashion blogger of Native American descent, who was upset by the use of the word "squaw."
  • If my great brother, who has told us not to scalp this bee-hunter and her he calls his squaw, will tell us the name of his tribe, I shall be glad.
  • He also explains the political and sexual controversy behind the much-abused word "squaw" -- which is a lot more complicated than you might think.
  • One wrote, "The word 'squaw' is racist, offensive, and insulting on so many levels that I can't believe anyone in the 21st century would use it...."
  • Ives Goddard, now senior linguist emeritus at the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology, has always disputed Harjo's translation, saying the word "squaw" derives "from an innocent term for woman."
  • Mountain Phil and his Klooch ” that being the name he called his squaw, which is also the Arapahoe name for wife ” were staying alone about ten miles further down the country from where we were located.
  • Mountain Phil and his Klooch -- that being the name he called his squaw, which is also the Arapahoe name for wife -- were staying alone about ten miles further down the country from where we were located.
  • From the midst of the crowd, thrust out by its own vividness, appeared the face of a wild-eyed squaw from the remote regions of the Upper Tana-naw; a strayed Sitkan from the coast stood side by side with a Stick from Lake Le Barge, and, beyond, a half-dozen French-Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves.

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