Moose Jaw

Meaning

1. A city in the Rural Municipality of Moose Jaw No. 161, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2. A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
3. A river in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, Moose Jaw River.
4. en A derisive nickname for U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s.

Synonyms

Yellowknife

bluenose

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Dresden

Hull

Baffin Island

Cadillac

Saint Charles

Saint John’s

Saskatoon

Vulcan

Dildo

Medicine Hat

St. Catharines

Swift Current

St. John’s

Hollywood North

Manipogo

Leamington

Yarmouth

Scarlem

red rocket

Muddy York

Igopogo

Edmonchuk

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Translations

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Moose Jaw

Etymology

Corruption of the Cree term through Anglicization by substitution of similar sounding English-language words, and being a riverside location; becoming Moose Jaw Bone Creek, former name of the Moose Jaw River, from the Cree "moscâstani". From Cree moscâstani-sîpiy (“a warm place by the river”), from the overwintering camp of the Cree in a river valley sheltered by the Couteau Plateau, at the confluence of the Moose Jaw River and Thunder Creek. The town is named after the river, in turn, named for the overwintering camp where the town is now located.