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shambuk

shambuk is the alternative spelling 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 shambuk

pluralshambuks

Questions about shambuk

What is shambuk the alternative spelling of?
Shambuk is the alternative spelling of sjambok.

Words near shambuk in the dictionary

  1. shamboo
  2. shamboos
  3. Shambos
  4. shambrough
  5. shambroughs
  6. shambuk
  7. shambuks
  8. shamburger
  9. shamburgers
  10. Shamchun
  11. shamdemic

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