Chickasaws

Variant of Chickasaw

Chickasaw definition

Chicka·saw (c̸hik′ə sô′, -sä′)

noun

  1. pl. Chickasaws -·saws′ or Chickasaw -·saw′ a member of a North American Indian people that formerly lived in N Mississippi and Alabama and now lives in Oklahoma
  2. the Muskogean language of this people, closely related to Choctaw

Etymology: < Chickasaw chikashsha, a self-designation, or a Muskogean cognate of this

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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