paleface
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Definition of paleface
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur)A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.
“Dere is Great Wicked Spirit, too... Heart grow hard. Great pleasure was to kill pale-face. Dat feeling last, Blossom, till I see you. Feel like fader to you, and don't want your scalp... Still want all udder pale-face scalp. Want Bourdon scalp much as any.”
“The hearts of the palefaces would not thrill to these superstitions of the red men, though we spoke of them in the centre of the haunted region.”
“The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives.”
“"Yes me big paleface—me come long way toward setting sun—go cross Big Water—go Buckskin—Siwash—chase cougar." The cougar, or mountain lion, is a Navajo god and the Navajos hold him in as much fear and reverence as do the Great Slave Indians the musk-ox.”
“High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.”
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noun
-
(derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur)A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.
“Dere is Great Wicked Spirit, too... Heart grow hard. Great pleasure was to kill pale-face. Dat feeling last, Blossom, till I see you. Feel like fader to you, and don't want your scalp... Still want all udder pale-face scalp. Want Bourdon scalp much as any.”
“The hearts of the palefaces would not thrill to these superstitions of the red men, though we spoke of them in the centre of the haunted region.”
“The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives.”
“"Yes me big paleface—me come long way toward setting sun—go cross Big Water—go Buckskin—Siwash—chase cougar." The cougar, or mountain lion, is a Navajo god and the Navajos hold him in as much fear and reverence as do the Great Slave Indians the musk-ox.”
“High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.”
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of paleface.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From pale + face, a supposed calque from a Native American language. First appears in print c. 1797.
Words you can make from paleface
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2 words5-letter words
6 words4-letter words
28 words- CAFE 9 pts
- CALF 9 pts
- CLEF 9 pts
- FACE 9 pts
- FLAP 9 pts
- PELF 9 pts
- CAPE 8 pts
- CEPE 8 pts
- CLAP 8 pts
- PACA 8 pts
- PACE 8 pts
- ALEF 7 pts
- ALFA 7 pts
- FEAL 7 pts
- FEEL 7 pts
- FLEA 7 pts
- FLEE 7 pts
- LEAF 7 pts
- ALEC 6 pts
- LACE 6 pts
- LEAP 6 pts
- PALE 6 pts
- PEAL 6 pts
- PEEL 6 pts
- PELE 6 pts
- PLEA 6 pts
- ALAE 4 pts
- ALEE 4 pts
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