English Explanatory Dictionary

oldsquaw

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The long-tailed duck, a medium-sized seaduck: Clangula hyemalis.

Word forms

oldsquaw oldsquaws old squaw

Etymology

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

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