Squawl vs. Squaw — What's the Difference?

Alternative form of squall

The English word squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered derogatory, misogynist, and racist.While the morpheme squaw (or a close variant) is found within longer words in several Eastern and Central Algonquian languages, primarily spoken in the northeastern United States and in eastern and central Canada, these languages only make up a small minority of the Indigenous languages of North America.

Alternative form of squall

(Offensive) A Native American woman, especially a wife.

See Squall.

Offensive Slang A woman or wife.

A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.

A female; a woman, especially a married woman; a wife; - in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.

An American Indian woman