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Redskin   /rˈɛdskˌɪn/   Listen
Redskin

noun
1.
(slang) offensive term for Native Americans.  Synonyms: Injun, red man.






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"Redskin" Quotes from Famous Books



... eat it, but I can stab a hole in the top of the box and keep Redskin in it. Come on, hurry! He's getting tired in my ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville

... him as an Indian whom he saw at Joncaire's in Venango, when they were on their journey to the French fort, which fact made him somewhat suspicious of the redskin. ...
— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

... happened, he was running toward the hut with two captured muskets and a knife. In front of the hut the three other Indians were struggling with Father Claude, who was fighting in a frenzy, and the maid. She was hanging back, and one redskin had crushed her two wrists together in his hand and ...
— The Road to Frontenac • Samuel Merwin

... struggles conducted with the weapons which usually belong to the races of such development. To the ferocity of the Zulu are added the craft of the Redskin and the marksmanship of the Boer. The world is presented with that grim spectacle, "the strength of civilisation without its mercy." At a thousand yards the traveller falls wounded by the well-aimed bullet of a breech-loading rifle. His assailant, ...
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill

... said Boone. "Leastways if they have, he must ha' struck a new breed of redskin. Jim was better nor any redskin in Kaintuck', and they knowed it. I told ye, neighbours, of our doings before you come west through the Gap. The Shawnees cotched me and Jim in a cane-brake, and hit our trace back to camp, so that they cotched Finley too, and his three Yadkiners with him. ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan



Words linked to "Redskin" :   Injun, depreciation, derogation, Indian, American Indian, disparagement, jargon, vernacular, red man, Red Indian, slang, lingo, argot, patois, cant



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