sjamboke

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Verb

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sjamboke (third-person singular simple present sjambokes, present participle sjamboking, simple past and past participle sjamboked)

  1. Alternative form of sjambok
    • 1903, Edward Frederick Knight, South Africa After the War: A Narrative of Recent Travel, page 270:
      The Boers sjamboked unmercifully or shot natives whom they suspected of giving information to the British.
    • 2010, Casper Erichsen, David Olusoga, The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism:
      The corporal sjamboked her for certainly more than four minutes and sjamboked the baby as well.
      Are you ready to swear that you saw a white man sjamboking a baby, as well as its mother?
      I am.