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A Dictionary Hindustani and English: Accompanied by A Reverse Dictionary, English and Hindustani choose

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[Ind] D. Forbes Dict. Hindustani & English I 133/1: The English (that is to say, Indian-English) language has adopted this word: a ‘bahauder’ indicates a martinet, or proud and haughty mortal dressed in a little brief authority.
at bahaudur, n.
[Ind] D. Forbes Dict. Hindustani & Eng. II 103/2: O father! b?p-re! an exclamation used, especially by the vulgar, when under affliction, whence the Anglo-Indian word bobbery! noise, disturbance, &c., so familiar to the English [Ibid.] 193/2: O father, father! b?p-re-b?p! whence the ridiculous word bobbery, disturbance, &c., but which is only used by the English and their servile imitators.
at bobbery, n.
[Ind] D. Forbes Dict. Hindustani & Eng. I 125/1: [I]n the Indian English the word is pronounced and written bunnow, and means a ‘cram’ or ‘tough yarn,’ a purely made-up story.
at bunnow, n.
[Ind] D. Forbes Dict. Hindustani & Eng. I 774/1: t?zawil?yat?, a new comer to India; in Anglo-Indian phraseology ‘a griffin,’ or more colloquially a ‘griff’.
at griffin, n.1
[Ind] D. Forbes Dict. Hindustani & Eng. 295/1: [W]hen a lady rejects a gentleman’s matrimonial overtures, the inconsolable swain is said to have been jaw?bed.
at juwab, v.
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