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squa

squa is the obsolete form of squaw.

Meaning of squaw

Noun

squaw (plural squaws)

  1. (ethnic, offensive, slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
    • "If I ever set eyes on that savage again, I'll kill him. You know that, don't you, you damn squaw?" She shrugged. "Talk's cheap."1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Flame on the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 29

Forms of squa

pluralsquas

Questions about squa

What is squa the obsolete form of?
Squa is the obsolete form of squaw.

Words near squa in the dictionary

  1. sqrounds
  2. SQRRR
  3. sqrt
  4. SQS
  5. SQT
  6. squa
  7. squab
  8. squab chick
  9. squab chicks
  10. squab pie
  11. squab pies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squa (page history and authors); squaw (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.

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