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Eskimo   /ˈɛskəmˌoʊ/   Listen
Eskimo

noun
(pl. eskimos)  (Written also Esquimau)
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').  Synonyms: Esquimau, Inuit.
2.
The language spoken by the Eskimo.  Synonym: Esquimau.



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"Eskimo" Quotes from Famous Books



... increase upon me. The main cause was that whereas Mr. Max Muller explained Greek myths by etymologies of words in the Aryan languages, chiefly Greek, Latin, Slavonic, and Sanskrit, I kept finding myths very closely resembling those of Greece among Red Indians, Kaffirs, Eskimo, Samoyeds, Kamilaroi, Maoris, and Cahrocs. Now if Aryan myths arose from a 'disease' of Aryan languages, it certainly did seem an odd thing that myths so similar to these abounded where non-Aryan languages alone prevailed. Did a ...
— Modern Mythology • Andrew Lang

... Honourable Arthur. He is an Englishman first, and a man afterwards (I prefer it the other way), but he does not realise it; he thinks he is just like all other good fellows, although he is mistaken. He and Willie Beresford speak the same language, but they are as different as Malay and Eskimo. He is an extreme type, but he is very likeable and very well worth looking at, with his long coat, his silk hat, and the white Malmaison in his buttonhole. He is always so radiantly, fascinatingly clean, the Honourable Arthur, simple, frank, direct, sensible, ...
— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... I wasn't particularly surprised to meet Bobbie at the club next day looking about as merry and bright as a lonely gum-drop at an Eskimo tea-party. ...
— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse



Words linked to "Eskimo" :   American Indian, Red Indian, Indian



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