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'Skimo
Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Skimau
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a member of a large group of North American aborigines inhabiting the Arctic and northern coastal areas from Greenland to Siberia.
Quotations
1817
[Esquimaux, or Skimaux, is an expression of the Cree and other inland Indians, signifying "eaters of raw flesh" and they have bestowed this appellation on the maritime Indians, in contempt, as there has always been a most deadly hatred between them.]
1956
"[The] bird-watchers . . . used to rush out of the tents with nets, and the 'skimo kids would all look at them and shout: 'Clazy! Clazy!' Before they was through they had all the 'skimos working for them, too."