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The answer SQUAW has 24 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of squaw in various dictionaries:
noun - an American Indian woman
A Native American woman, especially a wife.
A woman or wife.
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| The English word Squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered offensive, derogatory, misogynist and racist.The English word is not used among Native American, First Nations, Inuit or Métis peoples. While a similar morpheme is found within some longer words in some of the Eastern Algonquian languages, these languages only make up a small minority of the languages spoken in the hundreds of Indigenous communities affected by this slur. Even in Algonquian, the words used are not the English-language slur, but longer, Algonquian words that only contain one morpheme. Eastern Algonquian morphemes meaning "woman", which are found as components in other words and may have been transcribed into English include the Massachusett language "squa", "skwa", "esqua", "sqeh", "skwe", "que", "kwa", "ikwe", "exkwew", "xkwe", and a number of other variants.To date, the term persists in the |