soko
English
Noun
soko (plural sokos)
- (dated) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.
- 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals (page 232)
- Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.
- 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals (page 232)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for soko in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Croatia) sȍkol
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sokolъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sôko/
- Hyphenation: so‧ko
Noun
sȍko m (Cyrillic spelling со̏ко)
Swahili
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