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squawman

squawman is the alternative form of squaw man.

Meaning of squaw man

Noun

squaw man (plural squaw men)

  1. (US, Western, derogatory, especially, historical, offensive) A white man who married a Native American woman, sometimes gaining tribal rights by doing so.

Forms of squawman

pluralsquawmen

Questions about squawman

What is squawman the alternative form of?
Squawman is the alternative form of squaw man.

Words near squawman in the dictionary

  1. squawl
  2. squawled
  3. squawlike
  4. squawling
  5. squawls
  6. squawman
  7. squawmen
  8. squawmint
  9. Squawmish
  10. squawroot
  11. squawroots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squawman (page history and authors); squaw man (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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