duiker

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈdaɪkɚ/
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/ˈdaɪkɚ/ · /ˈdaɪkə/

Definition of duiker

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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).”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Piecewise doublet of ducker.

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