Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of slipper without quarters or heel, worn in Turkey and the East.
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Examples
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We have been to the perfumer "-- he leaned confidentially towards her, exhaling a pungent odour of amber --" to the tailor, to the baboosh bazaar! "
The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
bilby commented on the word baboosh
Wait, so babaganoosh is a slipper-ful of agan?
February 6, 2024