squaw Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an American Indian woman

WordNet


Squaw noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.

Webster 1913