| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people').[Wordnet]
2. The language spoken by the Eskimo.[Wordnet]. | |
Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | Top | |
"Esquimau" is a common misspelling or typo for: squeak, squeal, squirmed, sequoia, sequoias, Sequim, espuma. |
Date "Esquimau" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Etymology:Esquimau \Es"qui*mau\, noun; plural Esquimaux. [French]. (references) |
