squaw
noun/skwɔː/
/skwɔː/
(old-fashioned, offensive)- an offensive word for an indigenous North American womanWord Originmid 17th cent.: from Narragansett squaws ‘woman’, with related forms in many Algonquin dialects. Narragansett is an extinct Algonquian language.
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