Squaw \Squaw\, n. [Massachusetts Indian squa, eshqua; Narragansett squ[^a]ws; Delaware ochqueu, and khqueu; used also in compound words (as the names of animals) in the sense of female.]

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

Old squaw. (Zo["o]l.) See under Old.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)