Green’s Dictionary of Slang
E. Thompson Indian Day (1940) 9: The coolies were paid. As they looked at the coins in their palms, any discussion was foreclosed by an imperious wave of the hand, and an order to jao. ‘And jao jeldily, and be choop about it.’.at choop, adj.
E. Thompson Indian Day 16: ‘Of course, we have only the newspapers and common gup to go by’.at gup, n.1
E. Thompson Indian Day 241: ‘Then one day they got khubber that the creature had killed an old woman at Simuldanga’.at khubber, n.
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