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The Globe Trotter in India two hundred years ago, and other Indian studies choose

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[Ind] M. Macmillan Globe Trotter in India 88: The Anglo-Indian derivative is spelt ‘dumbcow,’ so as to give both syllables an English meaning, and raise in the mind the idea of cowing a person and rendering him dumb, or of making him as dumb as a cow.
at dumcow, v.
[Ind] M. Macmillan Globe Trotter in India 89: The Hindustani idharao is converted into hitherao, in order that it may contain the English adverb ‘hither’.
at hitherao!, excl.
[Ind] M. Macmillan Globe Trotter in India 82: Puckerao, samjhao, maro, and banao are likewise colloquially conjugated as English verbs, especially by English soldiers.
at puckerow, v.
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