Edith Cuthell Indian Idylls 128: Mrs. Splatter was the biggest lady in the Anglo-Indian station of Noluck. I am not, of course, alluding to her corporeal size, though that too was worthy of note, but to her social position. She was, to use the native term applied to her and her ilk, the ‘burra mem,’ or big woman.at burra mem (n.) under burra, adj.