khubber n.
(orig. Anglo-Ind.) news, orig. that given to hunters about local game; thus rumour, gossip (see cite 1875).
![]() | Pen and Pencil Sketches I 109: [W]hilst we were at breakfast, the servant informed us that there were some gongwalas, or villagers, who had some khubber (news) about tigers to give us. | |
![]() | Asiatic Jrnl & Mthly Register May 52: Just now taking a dekh (look) at the Calcutta Khubber (News), I saw your name. | ‘Memoirs of a Griffin’ in|
![]() | India Sporting Review Sept. 110: Lots of khubber; changed our beat by crossing the nullah; we were beating a small tree jungle bordering the edges of a small jheel, when up jumped a tigress. | ‘Sequel to Sport in the Worst Station in Bengal’ in|
![]() | Delhi Sketch Bk 1 July 79/1: One ignorant lubber / Sinds lashins o’ Kubber / Regardin the prices of cotton. | |
![]() | Times of India 28 Oct. 1/4: [small ads] BURKA KHUBBER. DAVE CARSON SAHIB KA PUCKA TUMASHA ANNAI CHATA HI. | |
![]() | Lays of Ind 66: Then thirty-two shikarrees black. / And tough as india-rubber. / Who’d run their fifty miles and back / To bring the sahib khubber. | |
![]() | Wagga Wagga Exp. (NSW) 8 Feb. 4/2: On Saturday last the ‘khabber’ of tiger was again afloat. | |
![]() | Lays of Ind (1905) 145: The khubbur about the coin was wrong. | |
![]() | Seonee 135: the Lalla, who was always poking his nose about into every corner for khubbur, came to me [etc]. | |
![]() | ‘Letters on Leave’ in Pioneer (1909) 198: Now and again men drift in with news, but I don't like hot-weather khubber. It's all of the domestic occurrence kind. | |
![]() | Stray Sport I 222: The beaters were rewarded with double pay as an incentive, not only to give us khubber of hog, but to come and beat on a future occasion. | |
![]() | Reminiscences of Twenty Years Pigsticking in Bengal 54: I told my guests of the good khubur I had got only a short time before. | |
![]() | Burnt Offering 206: The regiment were in camp [...] and old Tom Scatter got khabber of this new toy of Kolapatta’s. | |
![]() | Two Dianas in Somaliland 93: We had started to march [...] as we had news of splendid ‘khubbah,’ some miles off. | |
![]() | Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 21 June 6/3: One goal at least scored, the only khubber we had of it being the applause from that end of the ground. | |
![]() | Jrnl Bombay Natural History Soc. XXXIII 428: I got khabber one day of a tiger kill 5 miles away, a cow being the victim. | |
![]() | Wheels of Ind 180: Trackers have been sent out to bring in khabber, or news, of our quarry. | |
![]() | Indian Day 241: ‘Then one day they got khubber that the creature had killed an old woman at Simuldanga’. | |
![]() | Entry From Backside Only 118: Outside gentry not having inside khabar on loins and ‘snakes’ and joos was getting too much shocked. | in John