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SQUAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Derogatory terms for an American Indian woman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("squaw" is a kind of...):
Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)
Context examples:
He would have been glad for the rattle of stones about him, flung by an angry squaw, glad for the hand of Grey Beaver descending upon him in wrath; while he would have welcomed with delight Lip-lip and the whole snarling, cowardly pack.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Wherever there was trouble and uproar in camp, fighting and squabbling or the outcry of a squaw over a bit of stolen meat, they were sure to find White Fang mixed up in it and usually at the bottom of it.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He was a sneak and a thief, a mischief-maker, a fomenter of trouble; and irate squaws told him to his face, the while he eyed them alert and ready to dodge any quick-flung missile, that he was a wolf and worthless and bound to come to an evil end.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
