Definitions for angakok

angakok an·ga·kok

Spelling: [ang-guh-kok]
IPA: /ˈæŋ gəˌkɒk/

Angakok is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in angakok (aagkkno).

Definitions for angakok

noun

  1. a shaman in Eskimo society.

Origin of angakok

1760-70; German Inuit (Greenlandic) angeqok

Examples for angakok

The thong is attached to the end of a stick which is held in hand by the angakok.

The angakok is generally not loved—he knows too many unpleasant things that are going to happen, so he says.

One angakok throws her with his harpoon, another631 one stabs her, and by this means they cut off all the transgressions.

The business of the angakok is mainly singing incantations and going into trances, for he has no medicines.

Tuavituk, the angakok, it was decided, must do some conjuring.

To the Eskimos it was a proof of the efficacy of the appeal to the angakok.

Word Value for angakok
Scrable

0

Words with friends

18

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