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coonkie

coonkie is the alternative form of koomkie.

Meaning of koomkie

Noun

koomkie (plural koomkies)

  1. A tame female elephant used as a decoy in the capture of wild male elephants.
    • When an elephant is in a proper state to be removed from the keddah, he is conducted either by koomkies or by tame males.1807, Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports

Forms of coonkie

pluralcoonkies

Questions about coonkie

What is coonkie the alternative form of?
Coonkie is the alternative form of koomkie.

Words near coonkie in the dictionary

  1. coonishness
  2. coonjine
  3. coonjined
  4. coonjines
  5. coonjining
  6. coonkie
  7. coonkies
  8. coonmunities
  9. coonmunity
  10. coonology
  11. Coonooer Bridge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coonkie (page history and authors); koomkie (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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