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[Ind] H. Hervey European in India III 206: Poor old Calcutta is out of it; young Delhi is still in embryo; Madras, besides being ‘one-horse,’ is the ‘benighted’ .
at Benighted, the, n.
[Ind] H. Hervey European in India 287: Asiatic Cholera, grotesquely styled by Tommy Atkins ‘Corporal Forbes,’ a corruption, presumably, of ‘Cholera Morbus,’ the scientific name – is an epidemic very common in India.
at Corporal Forbes, n.
[Ind] H. Hervey European in India 19: ‘And I tell you what, if you dik (bother) me much more [...] I shall, when I finger the money, come here again and give you a scramble with the coin instead of paying my moonshee!’.
at dick, v.1
[Ind] H. Hervey European in India 156: [F]rom eleven to two, when Society was either ‘peacocking’ or sitting in state to receive visitors, the couple would meet at the now empty reading-rooms.
at peacock, v.
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