Category:Squaw

Squaw, n. Etym: [massachusetts indian squa, eshqua; narragansett Squâws; delaware ochqueu, and khqueu; used also in compound words (as The names of animals) in the sense of female.]

Defn: a female; a woman; -- in the language of indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup. Old squaw. (zoöl.) See under Old.