Roger Mills wrote:
> Czechs and Slovaks were probably our largest immigrant stock, after Swedes
> and Norwegians, for whom I recall no derogatory terms.
Scandinavians generally were "squareheads" or "scandihoovians".
"Squarehead" was also applied to the Germans and the Dutch;
the correct gloss may be "derog. of speaker of Germanic language (other
than English (or Yiddish))".
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