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angakok

or an·ge·kok

[ ang-guh-kok ]

/ ˈæŋ gəˌkɒk /

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noun

a shaman in Eskimo society.

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Origin of angakok

1760–70; < German < Inuit (Greenlandic) angeqok

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for angakok

Tuavituk, the Angakok, it was decided, must do some conjuring.
Ungava Bob|Dillon Wallace
One angakok throws her with his harpoon, another631 one stabs her, and by this means they cut off all the transgressions.
The Popular Science Monthly, October, 1900|Various
The business of the angakok is mainly singing incantations and going into trances, for he has no medicines.
The North Pole|Robert E. Peary
The angakok is generally not loved—he knows too many unpleasant things that are going to happen, so he says.
The North Pole|Robert E. Peary

To the Eskimos it was a proof of the efficacy of the appeal to the Angakok.
Ungava Bob|Dillon Wallace