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[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections I 149: ‘Thanks be to God,’ cried the old man, rising; ‘that it is you and that there are honest folk in your company; for these places have of late been polluted by Bhanchoot soors – cursed swine – or thieves’.
at banchoot, adj.
[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections I 129: For more than two years I have not seen a rose! The ‘gardens of Gul’ are certainly not extant in this our cruelly-styled ‘Benighted Presidency’.
at Benighted Presidency, the (n.) under Benighted, the, n.
[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections 224: Ya, sahib, dekko, dekko ... Oh, sir, look! look !
at dekko, v.
[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections I 138: He followed up his unwelcome Interruption with, ‘Sar, Dobie come; Dobie want?’.
at dhobi, n.
[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections II 249: George Barnes, a smart little cadet newly posted, and in the full flush of green griffinhood and a scarlet jacket.
at griffinhood (n.) under griffin, n.1
[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections III 203: ‘[H]e is fat and foolish, and moreover, sahib, the gup-chup – (gossip) – is, that his wife, in a jealous fit the other eve, because she saw him speak to me, gave him a blow with the dòee (ladle) on the shin, which has lamed him’.
at gup, n.1
[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections III 182: Miss Douglas was the unrivalled belle of the Presidency, and had juwabed – Anglicè, answered, – i.e. rejected, Hymen and herself alone know how many suitors!
at juwab, v.
[Ind] C. Campbell Rough Recollections I 149: ‘Thanks be to God,’ cried the old man, rising; ‘that it is you and that there are honest folk in your company; for these places have of late been polluted by Bhanchoot soors – cursed swine – or thieves’.
at soor, n.1
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