squaw man

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   derogatory term for a white man married to a North American Indian woman

   Broaderwhite man

Questions about squaw man

What does squaw man mean?

squaw man means "derogatory term for a white man married to a North American Indian woman".

Is squaw man a common word?

squaw man is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.