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‘The Dawk Bungalow, or, ‘Is his Appointment Pucka?’’ choose

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[Ind] G.O. Trevelyan ‘The Dawk Bungalow’ in Fraser’s Mag. Mar. 384: ‘O! Thank goodness, here’s a belattee Christian man!’.
at Blighty, n.
[Ind] G.O. Trevelyan ‘Dawk Bungalow’ in Fraser’s Mag. Feb. 224: And every night and morning The bobarchee shall kill The sempiternal moorghee, And we’ll all have a grill.
at bobberchee, n.
[Ind] G.O. Trevelyan ‘Dawk Bungalow’ in Fraser’s Mag. Mar. 385: ‘Bless me, Sir, if you have no better suggestion to make you had better choop’.
at choop, v.
[Ind] G.O. Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow 223: Will you come with me, my Chota Sahib, / To you out-station far, / Where the dawks appear the longest, And the roads all cutcha are?
at chota sahib (n.) under chota, adj.
[Ind] G.O. Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow 385: I was foolish enough to pay these budmashes beforehand, and they have thrown me over. I must have been a paugul to do it .
at poggle, n.
[Ind] G.O. Trevelyan ‘Dawk Bungalow’ in Fraser’s Mag. Mar. 390: Fanny, I am cutcha no longer. Surely you will allow a lover who is pucka to puckero. (Takes her hand).
at puckerow, v.
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