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shikkaree

shikkaree is the alternative spelling of shikari.

Meaning of shikari

Noun

shikari (plural shikaris)

  1. A hunter or tracker, especially in the Indian subcontinent.
    • ‘And if thou art not a shikarri, where didst thou learn thy knowledge of the tiger-folk?’ said he. ‘No tracker could have done better.’1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 196
  2. (historical) A shooting-boat used in the Kashmir lakes.

Forms of shikkaree

pluralshikkarees

Questions about shikkaree

What is shikkaree the alternative spelling of?
Shikkaree is the alternative spelling of shikari.

Words near shikkaree in the dictionary

  1. shikimic
  2. shikimic acid
  3. shikiri
  4. shikiri-sen
  5. shikishi
  6. shikkaree
  7. shikkarees
  8. shikken
  9. shikkens
  10. shikker
  11. shikkered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shikkaree (page history and authors); shikari (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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