Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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G. Drago John Hobbs 3: ‘Qui hi, or ditcher;’ a ‘benighted Mull’, or an ‘ambitious Duck’. These are nick terms applied to the English residents at the three presidencies – Bengal, Madras, and Bombay respectively. [...] The Bengalee is also called a ‘Ditcher’ from the circumstance of the Mahrattah Ditch encircling Calcutta.at qui-hi, n.
G. Drago John Hobbs 3: ‘Qui hi, or ditcher;’ a ‘benighted Mull’, or an ‘ambitious Duck’. These are nick terms applied to the English residents at the three presidencies – Bengal, Madras, and Bombay respectively. [...] The Madressee is named a ‘Mull’ from his supposed fondness for mulligatawney soup.at mull, n.1
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