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单词 kiboko
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kibokon.

Brit. /kᵻˈbəʊkəʊ/, U.S. /kiˈboʊkoʊ/, /kəˈboʊkoʊ/, East African English /kiˈboko/
Origin: A borrowing from Swahili. Etymon: Swahili kiboko.
Etymology: < Swahili kiboko (plural viboko), specific use of kiboko hippopotamus. Compare German Kiboko whip or cane made of hippopotamus hide (both 1892 or earlier, now historical; also 1885 or earlier denoting the hippopotamus, obsolete in this sense).sjambok n. and its ultimate Persian etymon have sometimes been compared, but are unrelated.
In Africa: a strong heavy whip made of hippopotamus hide, often used as an instrument of punishment during the period of German colonization. Cf. sjambok n. In later use also: a cane or stick.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > of hide
tarleather1566
plet1781
cow-skin1789
sjambok1790
kurbash1814
chabouk1817
cowhide1818
hide1851
kiboko1898
chicote1903
1898 Anti-slavery Reporter Mar.-June 123 The smallest fault was punished by twenty-five strokes of Kibokoi.e., hipopotamus-hide whip—a regular institution there.
1969 Tanzania Notes & Rec. July 11 There were also many references to the 25 or 30 strokes of the kiboko used as a punishment in German days.
2007 Africa News (Nexis) 22 Apr. Every Ugandan in town was running for dear life, lest a kiboko lands on their buttocks... Men armed with canes descended upon anybody they could find and started flogging them without prior warning or reason.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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