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[Ind] Kipling Kim in McClure’s Mag. 463/1: ‘All police-constables are nut-cuts; but the police-wallahs are the worst. Hai, my son, thou hast never learned all that since thou earnest from Belait (Europe)’.
at Blighty, n.
[Ind] Kipling Kim (1987) 150: What was you bukkin’ to that nigger about?
at buck, v.3
[Ind] Kipling Kim 238: ‘Chûp!’ (be still) he cried, and again he heard a chuckle, that decided him. ‘Chûp — or I break your head’.
at choop, v.
[Ind] Kipling Kim in McClure’s Mag. Mar. 463/1: ‘That is a nut-cut (rogue),’ she said. ‘All police-constables are nut-cuts; but the police-wallahs are the worst’.
at nut-cut, n.
[Ind] Kipling Kim 219: ‘Look! Dekho! It is there as it was there.’.
at dekko, v.
[Ind] Kipling Kim 148: ‘You will be sent to a school. Later on, we shall see. Kimball, I suppose you’d like to be a soldier?’ ‘Gorah-log (white-folk). Noah! Noah!’ Kim shook his head violently.
at gora log under gora, n.1
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