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Shilluks

Shilluks is the plural of Shilluk.

Meaning of Shilluk

Noun

Shilluk (plural Shilluks or Shilluk)

  1. A member of a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group residing in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the Nile River in Malakal.
    • We find the legend of the creation of mankind out of clay among the Shilluks of the White Nile, who ingeniously explain the different complexions of the various races by the differently coloured clays out of which they were fashioned.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 52

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Questions about Shilluks

What is Shilluks the plural of?
Shilluks is the plural of Shilluk.

Words near Shilluks in the dictionary

  1. shillmon
  2. shillmons
  3. Shillong
  4. shills
  5. Shilluk
  6. Shilluks
  7. shilly and shally
  8. shilly-shallied
  9. shilly-shallier
  10. shilly-shalliers
  11. shilly-shallies

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