Squaw

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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; -- in
     the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family,


     correlative of sannup. [Considered offensive by some American
     indians.]
     [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     {Old squaw}. (Zool.) See under {Old}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  squaw
       n : an American Indian woman

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "squaw":
     Eve, Frau, better half, common-law wife, concubine, dame,
     daughter of Eve, distaff, domina, donna, dowager, feme,
     feme covert, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, goodwife, goody,
     helpmate, helpmeet, lady, lass, married woman, matron, milady,
     old lady, old woman, rib, vrouw, wahine, weaker vessel,
     wedded wife, wife, woman