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Moose Jaw

Moose Jaw proper noun: a city in the Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw No. 161, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Proper noun

Moose Jaw

  1. A city in the Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw No. 161, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  2. A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
    Synonyms:
    Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw No. 161, Rural Municipality No. 161, Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw, Moose Jaw No. 161
  3. A river in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, Moose Jaw River.
    Synonyms:
    Moose Jaw Bone Creek, Moose Jaw River, Moose Jaw Creek, Moose Jaw Bone River, Moose Jawbone River, Moose Jawbone Creek
  4. A derisive nickname for U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s.
    • "Hell, from what I hear," Hughes insisted, "the place is full of them. Starting with old Moose-jaw and his White House gang. And since June twenty-second they've been hell-bent to get us into this foreign war."1950, William L. Shirer, The Traitor, page 171

Synonyms of Moose Jaw

  • Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw No. 161
  • Rural Municipality No. 161
  • Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw
  • Moose Jaw No. 161
  • Moose Jaw Bone Creek
  • Moose Jaw River
  • Moose Jaw Creek
  • Moose Jaw Bone River
  • Moose Jawbone River
  • Moose Jawbone Creek

Origin of Moose Jaw

Corruption of the Cree term through Anglicization by substitution of similar sounding English-language words, and being a riverside location; becoming Moose Jaw Bone Creek, former name of the Moose Jaw River, from the Cree "moscâstani". From Cree moscâstani-sîpiy (“a warm place by the river”), from the overwintering camp of the Cree in a river valley sheltered by the Couteau Plateau, at the confluence of the Moose Jaw River and Thunder Creek. The town is named after the river, in turn, named for the overwintering camp where the town is now located.

Words formed from Moose Jaw

Questions about Moose Jaw

What does Moose Jaw mean?
Moose Jaw means a city in the Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw No. 161, Saskatchewan, Canada.
What part of speech is Moose Jaw?
Moose Jaw is a proper noun.

Words near Moose Jaw in the dictionary

  1. moose deers
  2. moose elm
  3. Moose Factory
  4. Moose Javian
  5. Moose Javians
  6. Moose Jaw
  7. moose knuckle
  8. moose knuckles
  9. moose limb
  10. moose limbs
  11. moose maple

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