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The Crime of Colour choose

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[Ind] J.H. Stocqueler ‘The crime of colour’ in Patriotic Fund Jrnl 17 Feb. 165/2: ‘Talk of Warren Hastings and the nabobs of the last century! Toodleton, the Bahadour, would have cut them all out – but it’s all u p with him.’.
at bahaudur, n.
[Ind] J.H. Stocqueler ‘The crime of colour’ in Patriotic Fund Jrnl 17 Feb. 165/2: ‘Bappree bap!’ exclaimed the Scotch lady, adopting the tone and phrase of wonderment common to the Hindoos. ‘You don’t mean it.’.
at bobbery-bob!, excl.
[Ind] ‘J.H. Stocqueler’ ‘The crime of colour’ in Patriotic Fund Jrnl 3 Feb. 130/2: ‘Burra mem (great lady) – she too treat my child like dog’.
at burra mem (n.) under burra, adj.
[Ind] J.H. Stocqueler ‘The crime of colour’ in Patriotic Fund Jrnl 17 Feb. 165/1: ‘Well, have you heard the gup (gossip)?’.
at gup, n.1
[Ind] J.H. Stocqueler ‘The crime of colour’ in Patriotic Fund Jrnl 17 Feb. 164/2: ‘If not too late, she shall juwaub the contemptible Toodleton.’ Somers did not quite comprehend the word juwaub. ‘Not know what juwaubing is? Ask Hardwicke there’.
at juwab, v.
[Ind] J.H. Stocqueler ‘The crime of colour’ in Patriotic Fund Jrnl 24 Feb. 185/1: Presently a man – another – and a third, dashed pass the tomb. ‘Puckerow! Puckerow!’ (‘seize! seize!’) called out the voice of a horseman a few yards in their rear.
at puckerow, v.
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