Duiker
//ˈdaɪkɚ// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
"Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it)."
Example
More examples"Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it)."
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Piecewise doublet of ducker.
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