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sjamboks

sjamboks is the plural 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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Questions about sjamboks

What is sjamboks the plural of?
Sjamboks is the plural of sjambok.

Words near sjamboks in the dictionary

  1. sjamboked
  2. sjambokes
  3. sjamboking
  4. sjambokked
  5. sjambokking
  6. sjamboks
  7. sjark
  8. SJD
  9. SJF
  10. SJFs
  11. sJIA

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