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khoonkie

khoonkie 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 khoonkie

pluralkhoonkies

Questions about khoonkie

What is khoonkie the alternative form of?
Khoonkie is the alternative form of koomkie.

Words near khoonkie in the dictionary

  1. Khoo
  2. khoomei
  3. khoomey
  4. khoomi
  5. khoomii
  6. khoonkie
  7. khoonkies
  8. khoormog
  9. Khoos
  10. Khoozestan
  11. khopesh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: khoonkie (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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