Shilluk
noun
a member of a Nilotic people of Sudan.
Shilluks
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pluralof Shilluk.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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So the Shilluks cast their ballots at random.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur.
From Time Magazine Archive
A number of local natives, Shilluks, who had long been hostile to the dervishes, were co-operating with the strangers.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
