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  • noun Plural form of Eskimo.

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Examples

  • The only thing wrong with Eskimos is that they live so close to all those dirty canadians.

    MICHAEL CERA: STILL FUNNY, ACTUALLY 2007

  • "Roswell," continued Jeff, who was proud to show off the learning of his young friends, "why do they call the Eskimos that name?"

    Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • This fellow had spent a lot of time working with local tribesmen somewhere up in the area where the people we used to call Indians turned into the people we used to call Eskimos, and he told me something I never forgot.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • This fellow had spent a lot of time working with local tribesmen somewhere up in the area where the people we used to call Indians turned into the people we used to call Eskimos, and he told me something I never forgot.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • This fellow had spent a lot of time working with local tribesmen somewhere up in the area where the people we used to call Indians turned into the people we used to call Eskimos, and he told me something I never forgot.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • In second grade we learned about the Inuit (who don't like to be called Eskimos, our teacher taught us), and how, though they sometimes ate caribou hoofs and other foods that we generally did not find on our own dinner tables, they were essentially like us.

    The Question That We Should Be Asking 2007

  • The Eskimos were the only tribe in all of North and South America that never developed the tradition of a tribal ‘medicine man’ because they virtually never got sick.

    The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

  • Continent the Eskimos did formerly live much farther south; there is surely a strong case made out, and therefore the probabilities are that the Eskimos are the representatives of the Cave-men of Europe.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • "People called Eskimos," said his father, "who live by fishing and hunting."

    Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus Thomas Nelson Page 1887

  • We must again remind the reader here that the Eskimos are a simple as well as straightforward folk.

    Red Rooney The Last of the Crew 1859

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