sjambok, verb transitive

/ˈʃæmbɒk/
Forms:
Also sjambook.
Origin:
From sjambok noun.
To strike or flog (someone or something) with a sjambok.
1853 Natal Mercury 6 Jan.He..sjamboked them.
1853 R.B. Struthers Hunting Jrnl (1991) 26The rascal I sjambokked yesterday sent back the things he had stolen.
1881 Blackwood’s Mag. (U.K.) Dec. 756To associate or have anything to do with blacks, except to make them work, or sjambook them if they don’t work hard is an unpardonable offence in a Boer’s eyes.
1894 E. Glanville Fair Colonist 116I would cheerfully sjambok a stock-lifter until he dropped.
1900 F.R.M. Cleaver in M.M. Cleaver Young S. Afr. (1913) 155I personally felt as if I had been sjambokked all over and hung out to stiffen.
1900 R. Kipling in J. Crwys-Williams S. Afr. Despatches (1989) 160Suppose you had dismissed a servant, or got him sjamboked, and he saw you go out? He would wait for you to come back on a tired horse, and then...You see?
1928 E.H.L. Schwarz Kalahari & its Native Races 85On one occasion he jumped on the back of one of the traders, and sjamboked him.
1943 I. Frack S. Afr. Doctor 63Conscription of labour in the best Hitlerian manner, sjamboking the hide of the black to get the devil out of him and make him work better.
1962 L.E. Neame Hist. of Apartheid 108The labourers alleged that they were worked long hours with insufficient food and were sjambokked if they did not work fast enough.
1986 Weekly Mail 21 Nov. 2A union official kneeled on the ground in front of the police...The next moment a policeman was sjambokking him.
1993 Daily News 13 Jan. 1She had been sjambokked several times because she was thought to have been involved in witchcraft.
To strike or flog (someone or something) with a sjambok.
Derivatives:
Hence sjambokker  noun, one who uses a sjambok; sjamboking, sjambokking  verbal noun, a whipping with a sjambok (also figurative).
1899 G.H. Russell Under Sjambok 247True, I have given him many a sjamboking — so has my father; but I think he will help us for all that.
1908 D. Blackburn I Came & Saw 208Your sjambokking of Sixpence gave me the idea for the Humanitarian Company.
1937 C.R. Prance Tante Rebella’s Saga 60He..settled him the good old way with a good sjamboking.
1953 Cape Times 30 Mar. 1A police investigation into the alleged sjambokking of two United Party canvassers...The sjambokker came outside and hit..Mr Eddy..on the legs.
1980 Listener (U.K.) 17 Apr. 487Lilford, landowner and power behind Smith and the Rhodesian Front, gave me a verbal sjambokking over the telephone.
1985 Sunday Star 27 Oct. 16One thing is becoming clear: Police action, declaration of emergencies, sabre-rattling, water cannons and sjambokking will not halt the unrest.
1989 D. Kramer in ADA No.7, 8All the beatings and sjambokking and stuff going on in the Cape Flats.
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sjambok, nounn.Sk, nounn.
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