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likkewaan|ˈlɪkəvɑːn|
Also lagavaan, likawaan.
[Afrikaans.]
= leguan. Cf. iguana 2.
1907J. P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld 315 There was not even a lagavaan slide, a game path, or a drinking place. 1914Farmer's Annual (S. Afr.) 334 Likavaan Skin. How to cure it. Take a quantity of alum and place it along with a small quantity of water in an old iron pot. 1936Williams & May I am Black xviii. 187 That boy was Shabala. It was he who had captured the likkewan [in 1949 edition corrected to likkewaan]. 1949Cape Argus Mag. 14 May 10 The dour old likkewaan with his whip⁓lash of a tail, can still be seen creeping through the shadows in search of birds' eggs to suck. 1971H. C. Bosman Bekkersdal Marathon 123 ‘What I mean is all right, for instance,’ Chris Welman continued, ‘is to push a small likkewaan down the back of a visitor's neck, and to pretend to him that it's a mamba.’ |