squaw


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
squaw /skwɔː/
noun offensive an American Indian woman or wife.
– origin C17: from Narragansett squaws ‘woman’, with rel. forms in many Algonquin dials.
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