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shambock

shambock is the alternative form of sjambok.

Meaning of sjambok

Noun

sjambok (plural sjamboks)

  1. (South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
    • He learnt that he was a slave, in spite of all the petty airs he might assume, a slave shackled to a yoke, to be scolded when he lagged, flogged when he rebelled with the sjambok of the modern driver, Threat of the Sack.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, pages 25–6

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Forms of shambock

Noun
pluralshambocks
Verb
third-person singular presentshambocks
present participleshambocking
past participleshambocked
pastshambocked

Questions about shambock

What is shambock the alternative form of?
Shambock is the alternative form of sjambok.

Words near shambock in the dictionary

  1. shamblingly
  2. shamblings
  3. Shamblins
  4. shambly
  5. shambo
  6. shambock
  7. shambocked
  8. shambocking
  9. shambocks
  10. shambogue
  11. shambogues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shambock (page history and authors); sjambok (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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