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Choc⋅taw

  [chok-taw]
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–noun, plural -taws, (especially collectively) -taw for 1.
1. a member of a large Muskhogean tribe of North American Indians, formerly living chiefly in southern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
2. the language of the Choctaw, closely related to Chickasaw.
3. something unintelligible, as speech, illegible handwriting, or an ineffectual explanation; gibberish: My best efforts at clarity were Choctaw to him.
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Choc·taw   (chŏk'tô)   
n.   pl. Choctaw or Choc·taws

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama, with present-day populations in Mississippi and southeast Oklahoma. The Choctaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Muskogean language of the Choctaw.


[Choctaw Chahta.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

Choctaw 
1722, from Choctaw Chahta, but also said to be from Sp. chato "flattened," for the tribe's custom of flattening the heads of male infants. As a figure skating step, first recorded 1892.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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