Definitions for dik-dik

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IPA: /ˈdɪkˌdɪk/

Dik-Dik is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in dik-dik (-ddiikk).

Definitions for dik-dik

noun

  1. any antelope of the genus Madoqua or Rhynchotragus, of eastern and southwestern Africa, growing only to 14 inches (36 cm) high at the shoulder.

Origin of dik-dik

First recorded in 1880-85; said to be a name imitative of the animal's cry, but language of orig. not ascertained

Examples for dik-dik

For instance, there's the oribi and the dik-dik, to say nothing of the steinbuck and the klipspringer.

After I had gone a little way a dik-dik crossed the dry river-bed in front of me; I fired at him, but it was too long a shot.

At the time the dik-dik came out I heard pigs grunting in a little dell below me, but I could not see them at all.

dik-dik flesh is very good eating; it tastes better roasted when one has bacon to add to it.

This animal turned out to be a little mouse-deer, or dik-dik.

They are all small, the dik-dik being scarcely larger than a rabbit, and they are divided into as many subspecies as the duiker.

Going through the jungle I put up a dik-dik hind; this animal trotted away out of shot range, and then stopped and looked at me.

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