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词汇 sjambok
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Definition of sjambok in English:

sjambok

nounPlural sjamboks ˈʃambɒk
  • (in South Africa) a long, stiff whip, originally made of rhinoceros hide.

    〈南非〉(原用犀牛皮做的)硬长皮鞭

    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.

    用硬长皮鞭抽打

    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:

sjambok

noun
  • (in South Africa) a long, stiff whip, originally made of rhinoceros hide.

    〈南非〉(原用犀牛皮做的)硬长皮鞭

    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.

    用硬长皮鞭抽打

    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.

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