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A Compendious Grammar of the Current Corrupt Dialect of the Jargon of Hindostan choose

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[Ind] G. Hadley Compendious Grammar 3: Bamboo-buhkshish, a cant phrase signifiying a recompense or present with a bambooing, or thrashing.
at bamboo baksheesh (n.) under bamboo, n.
[Ind] G. Hadley Compendious Grammar (5 edn) 72: Bhun-choot, bette-choot, mau-kau-choot, baup-kau-loura, are obscene terms of abuse, alluding to the sister, daughter, mother, and father of the object thereof. It is surprising that even the better sort of people use them.
at banchoot, n.
[Ind] G. Hadley Compendious Grammar (5 edn) 78: I have eat bang, am very lascivious, oh! oh!
at bang, n.4
[Ind] G. Hadley Compendious Grammar (5 edn) 72: Bhun-choot, bette-choot, mau-kau-choot, baup-kau-loura, are obscene terms of abuse, alluding to the sister, daughter, mother, and father of the object thereof. It is surprising that even the better sort of people use them.
at beteechoot, n.
[Ind] G. Hadley Compendious Grammar (5 edn) 5: Bullattee, country, (corruption of Willaittee), particularly applied to Europe.
at Blighty, n.
[Ind] G. Hadley Compendious Grammar 31: Oolta-poolta, topsy-turvey — higgledy-pippledy [sic] [ibid.] 49: Higgledy-piggledy. Oolta-poolta. Oolta signifies turned over. This seems a cant expression.
at oolta-poolta, adj.
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