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soko

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Perhaps from Swahili sokwe (“chimpanzee, non-human hominid”).

noun sokos

dated A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee. A soko alive was believed to be a good charm for rain; so one was caught, and the captor had the ends of two fingers and toes bitten off. The soko, or gorilla, always tries to bite off these parts, and has been known to overpower a young man and leave him without the ends of fingers and toes. […] Th

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@misc{soko_2026,
  title = {soko},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soko},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}