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chawbuck

chawbuck is the alternative form of chabuk.

Meaning of chabuk

Noun

chabuk (plural chabuks)

  1. (historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.
    • Shut your mouths and get back to work or I'll whip you with my own chabuk.2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 98

Verb

chawbuck (third-person singular simple present chawbucks, present participle chawbucking, simple past and past participle chawbucked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.

Forms of chawbuck

Noun
pluralchawbucks
Verb
third-person singular presentchawbucks
present participlechawbucking
past participlechawbucked
pastchawbucked

Questions about chawbuck

What does chawbuck mean?
Chawbuck means to beat with a chabuk.
What is chawbuck the alternative form of?
Chawbuck is the alternative form of chabuk.
What part of speech is chawbuck?
Chawbuck is a verb.
What is the past tense of chawbuck?
The past tense of chawbuck is chawbucked.

Words near chawbuck in the dictionary

  1. chawats
  2. chawbacon
  3. chawbacons
  4. chawbone
  5. chawbones
  6. chawbuck
  7. chawbucked
  8. chawbucking
  9. chawbucks
  10. chawdron
  11. chawdrons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chawbuck (page history and authors); chabuk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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