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[Ind] R.F. Burton Sind Revisited I 31: Or some pepper-pod of an ensign – we call him a ‘sub-lieutenant’ in these days – threatened the boatmen with ‘bamboo bakhshish;’ whereat the little whity-browns on board would at once throw themselves into their quasi-natural element, and strike shorewards like dabchicks.
at bamboo baksheesh (n.) under bamboo, n.
[Ind] R.F. Burton Sind Revisited I 68: [A]nd lastly, ‘Mulls,’ or Madrassís from the Benighted Presidency, because they lived upon water and mulligatawny, or they made a ‘mull’ of everything they attempted.
at Benighted Presidency, the (n.) under Benighted, the, n.
[Ind] R.F. Burton Sind Revisited I 68: Ducks, Bombayites – from the bummalow or bobil, the dried fish still called ‘Bombay Duck.
at duck, n.3
[Ind] R.F. Burton Sind Revisited I 68: [A]nd lastly, ‘Mulls,’ or Madrassís from the Benighted Presidency, because they lived upon water and mulligatawny, or they made a ‘mull’ of everything they attempted.
at mull, n.1
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