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sjambock

sjambock 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 sjambock

Noun
pluralsjambocks
Verb
third-person singular presentsjambocks
present participlesjambocking
past participlesjambocked
pastsjambocked

Questions about sjambock

What is sjambock the alternative form of?
Sjambock is the alternative form of sjambok.

Words near sjambock in the dictionary

  1. sizzurp
  2. Siâny
  3. Siófok
  4. Siče
  5. SJ
  6. sjambock
  7. sjambocked
  8. sjambocking
  9. sjambocks
  10. sjambok
  11. sjamboke

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