Synonyms for squaw

Grammar : Noun

Spell : skwaw

Phonetic Transcription : skwɔ

Top 10 synonyms for squaw

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Définition of squaw

Origin : "American Indian woman," 1630s, from Massachuset (Algonquian) squa "woman" (cf. also Narraganset squaws "woman"). "Over the years it has come to have a derogatory sense and is now considered offensive by many Native Americans" [Bright]. Widespread in U.S. place names, sometimes involving a translation of local American Indian words for "woman."

As in lady : noun woman

Example sentences :

No such forebodings disturb the Squaw Sachem and Wappacowet.
Extract from : « Main Street » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I returned to the Squaw River and spent the half of another year up there.
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

For an hour he rode and came to the junction of Mill Creek and the Squaw.
Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower

Bunny and Sue had, indeed, landed on an island in Squaw River.
Extract from : « Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South » by Laura Lee Hope

I said I would go with her until we could see Squaw Creek, and then turn and run home.
Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather

Now look for the Pappoose on the Squaw's back, as in Tale 50.
Extract from : « Woodland Tales » by Ernest Seton-Thompson

Squaw is the English corruption of the word, and is used to signify a wife.
Extract from : « Hudson Bay » by R.M. Ballantyne

“Squaw—Utah gal,” replied the Mexican in his trapper patois.
Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid

Just as folks were beginning to forget it, comes the Squaw Creek raid.
Extract from : « A Texas Ranger » by William MacLeod Raine

The story will be that the Squaw Creek raiders and their friends did it.
Extract from : « A Texas Ranger » by William MacLeod Raine

Antonyms for squaw

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