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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Small mischevious spirit man with poltergeist tendencies.
Examples
“They believe witches can create and control zombies, and fear a malicious spirit known as the tokoloshe -- reputed to be sexually insatiable and often taking the form of a hairy dwarf.”
“Delivering most of his speech in Afrikaans, Mandela told when he was in prison he spoke Afrikaans like a "tokoloshe".”
“Among the scary monsters that go bump in the night on the farm is the mythical tokoloshe.”
“Isangoma, I don't think your Proud One has much authority over these tokoloshe.”
“When man think bad thought or woman do bad thing, there is another tokoloshe.”
“The ad lists six other key safety concerns for foreign tourists ahead of the World Cup: sunburn, dehydration induced by cheap beer, the tokoloshe, the Parktown Prawn, the end of the world off Cape Point, and the city-dwelling Big Five.”
“It's my own personal tokoloshe come home to haunt me.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tokoloshe’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Zulu
words derived from Zulu found
in dictionaries
There is a Scottish boat called
a zulu built by William Campbellbabalas, babbelas, bonsella, bonsela, pasela, cocopan, donga, imbizo, impala, imphee, impi, indaba and 55 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Demongering
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diablerie, grimoire, ouija, dybbuk, sciomancy, necromancy, cacodemon, fallen angel, choronzon, kokomo, demonology, lilith and 650 more...
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Othernessence
Odd or mysterious beings.
Also check out the automachine list by drusky.ancients, elemental, familiar, cryptid, muse, otherkin, golem, interdimentional, lynx, ghost in the machine, gaia hypothesis, rods and 58 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tokoloshe.
bilby "I am a Botswanan living in rural South Africa. I am planning to marry my third wife and I paid her family lobola of two oxen, 12 sheep and a hi-fi system. She is a virgin. I recently went home for a few weeks to visit my sick uncle and when I returned, my future wife told me she is pregnant, although we have not yet consummated. Her father says she was impregnated by a tokoloshe and that the only option would be for us to get married as soon as possible. I am worried because I do not want to be the father of a tokoloshe child, as I believe they are high maintenance. However, I am obligated to marry now because my future father in law has already sold the cattle and sheep to pay for his new dentures and to pay off some gambling debts. What should I do? I was hoping to make her my favourite wife, as my first wife has lost most of her teeth and is barren. However, the tokoloshe child is going to complicate things. I am a well-educated man and feel I do not deserve this women trouble. Do you think I should run away?"
- Vlakvark Chabalala, Answers.yahoo.com, 2008. Jul 3, 2012
whichbe An evil spirit; a supernatural being that does the work of witches. (From WWFTD) Jun 6, 2008