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in Hobson-Jobson (1886) 99/2: Young Grant and Ford the other day / Would fain have had some Sport, / But Hound nor Beagle none had they, / Nor aught of Canine sort. / A luckless Parry came most pat / When Ford – ‘we’ve Dogs enow! / Here Maitre – Kawn aur Doom ko Kaut / Juld! Terrier bunnow! [lit. ‘Mehtar, cut his ears and tail, quick! Make a terrier!’]. in Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) 245/1: And Beaufort learned in the law, / And Atkinson the Sage, / And if his looks are white as snow, / ’Tis more from dikk than age! Hobson-Jobson 22/2: Anna. [...] The term is also sometimes applied colloquially to persons of mixt parentage. ‘Such an one has at least 2 annas of dark blood’ or ‘of coffee-colour.’ This may be compared with the Scotch expression that a person of deficient intellect ‘wants two-pence in the shilling’. Hobson-Jobson (1994) 56: banchoot, beteechoot, ss. Terms of abuse, which we would hesitate to print if their odious meaning were not known ‘to the general.’ If it were known to the Englishmen who sometimes use the words, we believe there are few who would not shrink from such brutality. Hobson-Jobson (1994) 127: bundook, s. H. band ūk, from Ar. bunduk. The common H. term for a musket or matchlock. Hobson-Jobson 45/1: Banged – is also used as a participle, for ‘stimulated by bang,’e.g. ‘banged up to the eyes’. Hobson-Jobson (1994) 72: batta, s. [...] an extra allowance made to officers, soldiers, or other public servants, when in the field, or on other special grounds; also subsistence money to witnesses, prisoners, and the like. Hobson-Jobson (1994) 78/1: BEEBEE, [...] The word is sometimes applied to a prostitute. Hobson-Jobson 65/1: Benighted, The, adj. An epithet applied by the denizens of the other Presidencies, a facetious disparagement to Madras. Hobson-Jobson (1994) 56: banchoot, beteechoot, ss. Terms of abuse, which we would hesitate to print if their odious meaning were not known ‘to the general.’ If it were known to the Englishmen who sometimes use the words, we believe there are few who would not shrink from such brutality. Hobson-Jobson (1994) 99: black town, n.p. Still the popular name of the native city of Madras, as distinguished from the Fort and southern suburbs occupied by the English residents, and the bazaars which supply their wants. The term is also used at Bombay. Hobson-Jobson 76/1: Bobbery-bob!, interj. The Anglo-Indian colloquial representation of a common exclamation of Hindus when in surprise or grief – ‘Bāp-re! or Bāp-re Bāp’ ‘O, Father!’. Hobson-Jobson 76/1: Bobachee-Connah, s. H. bāwarchī-khāna, ‘Cook house,’ i.e. Kitchen; generally in a cottage detached from the residence of a European household. Hobson-Jobson 75/2: Bobachee, s. A cook (male). This is an Anglo-Indian vulgarisation of bāwarchī, a term originally brought, according to Hammer, by the hordes of Chingiz Khan into Western Asia. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 113: brandypawnee, s. Brandy and water; a specimen of genuine Urdū, i.e. Camp jargon, which hardly needs interpretation. Hobson-Jobson 89/1: Buck, s. To prate, to chatter, to talk much and egotistically. Hind. baknā. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 127/2: bundobust [...] any system or mode of regulation; discipline; a revenue settlement. Hobson-Jobson 99/2: Bunnow, s. and v. Hind. banāo, used in the sense of ‘preparation, fabrication,’&c., but properly the imperative of banānā, ‘to make, prepare, fabricate.’ The Anglo-Indian word is applied to anything fictitious or factitious, ‘a cram, a shave, a sham;’ or, as a verb, to the manufacture of the like. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 132: burra sahib. H. bar ā, ‘great’; ‘the great Sāhib (or Master),’ a term constantly occurring, whether in a family to distinguish the father or the elder brother, in a station to indicate the Collector, Commissioner, or whatever official may be the recognised head of the society. [...] burra-beebee s. H. bar ī b īb ī, ‘Grande dame.’ This is a kind of slang word applied in Anglo-Indian society to the lady who claims precedence at a party. [Nowadays Bar ī Mem is the term applied to the chief lady in a Station]. [...] burra-khana, s. H. bar ā kh āna, ‘big dinner’; a term [...] applied to a vast and solemn entertainment. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 133/1: BUS, adv. P.-H. bas, ‘enough.’ Used commonly as a kind of interjection : ‘Enough ! Stop !’ [...] Few Hindustani words stick closer by the returned Anglo-Indian. Hobson-Jobson (1996). Hobson-Jobson (1996) 185: chatty, s. An earthen pot, spheroidal in shape. It is a S. Indian word, but is tolerably familiar in Anglo-Indian parlance of N. India. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 186/2: cheechee, adj. A disparaging term applied to half-castes or Eurasians [...] and also to their manner of speech. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 195: chillum, s. H. chilam; ‘the part of the hukka [...] which contains the tobacco and charcoal balls, whence it is sometimes loosely used for the pipe itself, or the act of smoking it’ (Wilson). It is also applied to the replenishment of the bowl, in the same way that a man asks for ‘another glass’. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 203: chit, chitty, s. A letter or note, also a certificate given to a servant or the like; a pass. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 205: choky, s. H. chauki, which in all its senses is probably connected with Skt. chatur, ‘four’; whence chatushka, ‘of four,’ ‘four-sided,’ etc. a. (Perhaps first a shed resting on four posts); a station of police; a lock-up. Hobson-Jobson (1994) 209/1: chop-chop, Pigeon-English (or Chinese) for ‘Make haste! look sharp!’. Hobson-Jobson 2001/1: ‘Corporal Forbes.’ A soldier’s grimly jesting name for Cholera Morbus. Hobson-Jobson (1996) 296: dandy, s. A boatman. The term is peculiar to the Ganges rivers. Hobson-Jobson 653/2: Sudden death. Anglo-Indian slang for a fowl served as a spatchcock, the standing dish at a dawk-bungalow in former days.