Crossword-Solution: ESKIMO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eskimo | n. | One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with ESKIMO (5)
Behind him, his pursuers stretched out in a thin line, first the speedy, unburdened dogs and then the travois dogs headed by the old Eskimo with his precious freight.
You rub it in until you suspect that your finger-nails have worn away, and you glisten to the elbows like an Eskimo cutting blubber.
Thus, his instance of the Eskimo as pushed to the verge of habitable America, and therefore living in the lowest depths of savagery, which, even if it were true, by no means proved a general rule, was deprived of its force by the simple fact that the Eskimos are by no means the lowest race on the American continent, and that various tribes far more centrally and advantageously placed, as, for instance, those in Brazil, are really inferior to them in the scale of culture.
This is contained in very old tales, such as country people tell, and savages: ‘Little Sioux and little Crow, Little frosty Eskimo.’ These people are thought to know most about fairyland and its inhabitants.
After they marry Mojave girls tattoo the chin with vertical blue lines; and when an Eskimo wife has her face tattooed with lamp-black she is regarded as a matron in society.
Quotes with ESKIMO (3)
The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and they're pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody's be diffe…
I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 151 times in crossword archives (1952–2019).