Word.ws English Dictionary

oldsquaw

oldsquaw noun: the long-tailed duck, a medium-sized seaduck: Clangula hyemalis.

Noun

oldsquaw (plural oldsquaws)

  1. (dated, offensive) The long-tailed duck, a medium-sized seaduck: Clangula hyemalis.

Forms of oldsquaw

pluraloldsquaws
alternative formold squaw

Origin of oldsquaw

First attested in the 19th century, from old + squaw, from the idea that the birds' squawking resembled old Native American women's.

Questions about oldsquaw

What does oldsquaw mean?
Oldsquaw means the long-tailed duck, a medium-sized seaduck: Clangula hyemalis.
What part of speech is oldsquaw?
Oldsquaw is a noun.
What is the plural of oldsquaw?
The plural of oldsquaw is oldsquaws.

Words near oldsquaw in the dictionary

  1. Oldsmar
  2. Oldsmobile
  3. Oldsmobiles
  4. oldsome
  5. oldspeak
  6. oldsquaw
  7. oldsquaws
  8. Oldstead
  9. oldster
  10. oldsters
  11. oldstyle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oldsquaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oldsquaw.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oldsquaw. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.