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Definition of sjambok in English: sjamboknounPlural sjamboks ˈʃambɒk (in South Africa) a long, stiff whip, originally made of rhinoceros hide. Example sentencesExamples - The men, who were armed with spears and sjamboks, refused to identify themselves.
- The police used tear gas and sjamboks to break up the crowd.
- He was beaten by 16 youths carrying hammers, axes, sticks and sjamboks, and suffered severe head injuries.
- The officers, armed with batons and sjamboks, struggled to control the horde.
Synonyms club, stick, cudgel, bludgeon, life preserver, shillelagh, baseball bat
verbsjamboks, sjambokking, sjambokkedˈʃambɒk [with object]Flog with a sjambok. she was sjambokked because she was thought to have been involved in witchcraft Example sentencesExamples - Sithole was sjambokked and punched so severely that he could not go to work for two months.
- They started sjambokking me and then the next thing, on the morning, round about six o'clock, the other group came in.
- He volunteered to combat looting in the chaos of the strike, and sjambokked nine people for looting.
- An inyanga allegedly sjambokked his stepdaughter for six hours, eventually killing her, after accusing her of stealing R40.
- The two men managed to run away and the strikers began sjambokking and hitting Grobbelaar with sticks.
- Residents of Bongweni near Mthatha sjambokked a 50-year-old man to death, apparently for stealing a drum, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.
Origin From South African Dutch tjambok, via Malay from Urdu chābuk. Definition of sjambok in US English: sjamboknoun (in South Africa) a long, stiff whip, originally made of rhinoceros hide. Example sentencesExamples - The officers, armed with batons and sjamboks, struggled to control the horde.
- The police used tear gas and sjamboks to break up the crowd.
- The men, who were armed with spears and sjamboks, refused to identify themselves.
- He was beaten by 16 youths carrying hammers, axes, sticks and sjamboks, and suffered severe head injuries.
Synonyms club, stick, cudgel, bludgeon, life preserver, shillelagh, baseball bat
verb [with object]Flog with a sjambok. she was sjambokked because she was thought to have been involved in witchcraft Example sentencesExamples - He volunteered to combat looting in the chaos of the strike, and sjambokked nine people for looting.
- Residents of Bongweni near Mthatha sjambokked a 50-year-old man to death, apparently for stealing a drum, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.
- Sithole was sjambokked and punched so severely that he could not go to work for two months.
- An inyanga allegedly sjambokked his stepdaughter for six hours, eventually killing her, after accusing her of stealing R40.
- They started sjambokking me and then the next thing, on the morning, round about six o'clock, the other group came in.
- The two men managed to run away and the strikers began sjambokking and hitting Grobbelaar with sticks.
Origin From South African Dutch tjambok, via Malay from Urdu chābuk. |