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piblokto
[< Esk.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a form of hysteria among Eskimos, especially among women, occurring during the dark winter.
Quotations
1959
There is a strange Eskimo madness--piblokto. Men and women are seized with uncontrollable frenzies during which they do all sorts of weird and violent things. . . .