chabouk

American

[chah-book] / ˈtʃɑ bʊk /

Or chabuk

noun

(in Asia, especially the East) a horsewhip, formerly often used for inflicting corporal punishment.

1805–15; < Urdu chābuk < Persian

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chabouk

Remember, effendi, if Yusuf come we go way chabouk.

From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Francis Hopkinson Smith

It is a Persian word, spelt chabouk by Moore, in Lalla Rookh.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

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