waterbok, noun
- Origin:
- South African Dutch, DutchShow more South African Dutch, from Dutch water water + bok antelope.
obs.
waterbuck.
1887 A.A. Anderson 25 Yrs in Waggon I. 121One afternoon I took my rifle for a ramble round in the thick bush veldt to look for a waterbok.
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