Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
babu .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Hindu gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindu title equivalent to the English Mr. or Esquire.
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- noun Dated form of
babu .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'
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Examples
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Once again the 'baboo' bureaucracy in Pakistan went to the extreme to screw the very people who sweat day in and day out to pay their salaries.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
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Once again the 'baboo' bureaucracy in Pakistan went to the extreme to screw the very people who sweat day in and day out to pay their salaries.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
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Literature, "and is well stocked with" baboo "English -- clerkly English, hooky English, acquired in the schools.
Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872
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Literature, "and is well stocked with" baboo "English -- clerkly English, hooky English, acquired in the schools.
Following the Equator, Part 7 Mark Twain 1872
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I had a messenger from him today with a flannel undershirt which I had left behind like a gibbering idiot; and perpetrated in reply another baboo letter.
Vailima Letters 2005
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A career woman, marital artist, take-no-prisoners gal who now got mushy whenever her little baboo smiled at her.
State Of War Clancy, Tom 2003
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Toni was going to have to take some time off from work to watch the baboo.
State Of War Clancy, Tom 2003
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The impassive European, with all the proud consciousness of a conquering race; the half-Europeanized baboo; the deposed rajah, -- all may be seen driving to and fro in splendid equipages, drawn by handsome steeds, and followed by servants in gay Oriental attire.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous
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The native staff of a garden consists of, say, two baboos, or book-keepers and clerks, a doctor baboo, sirdars or overseers, and chowkidars or line watchmen.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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His head baboo begged me to come over and take charge, if only to reassure the coolies, who had been running off into the jungle on the report of a threatened Naga raid.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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