Squaw vs Squad - What's the difference?
squaw | squad |
A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
* 1912 , in The New England magazine , volume 47:
(cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
(UK, dialect) sloppy mud
As nouns the difference between squaw and squad
is that squaw is a woman, wife; especially a Native American woman while squad is a group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.squaw
English
(wikipedia squaw)Usage notes
Previously used neutrally, the word began to be used as a term of contempt in the late 1800s; it is now often considered offensive.Derived terms
* squaw vine, squawberry * squawweed * squaw mint * squaw root * squaw fish * squaw carpet * squaw winter * squaw flower * squaw bush, squawbush * old squawReferences
squad
English
(wikipedia squad)Alternative forms
* escouade (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
- (Tennyson)