sjambok
nounEtymology
From Afrikaans sjambok, from Dutch sjambok, from Javanese cambuk, and as borrowed in Malay: modern Indonesian and Malay, ultimately from Persian چابک (čâbok). Originally spelt in the colonial Dutch transliteration tscamboek. The term was imported by VOC officials, Dutch merchants, the Maardijkers (Maluku (Moluccan) freemen and burghers), and Inlanders (Javanese and other modern Indonesian slaves and political exiles expelled to Dutch South Africa). Doublet of chabuk.
Definitions
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.
- Foppl stood holding a sjambok or cattle whip of giraffe hide, tapping the handle against his leg in a steady, syncopated figure.
- Several accusations had been brought in against her and every time she'd denied them she had been beaten with a sjambok.
To whip with a sjambok
To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA