budmash

"He fell into a budmash on his way home and was half-drowned, but the chickory, assisted by a friendly chota-hazri, managed to pull him out ... quite an eventful day!"

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

Had it been committed by a mere _budmash_ for the sake of robbery, or did he consider that any political significance was attached to it?

The Lamp in the Desert 1910

Din, as though the name were part of the crime, "is Muhammad Din, and he is a budmash."

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

Freed from present danger, Muhammad Din turned round in his father's arms, and said gravely, 'It is true that my name is Muhammad Din, _Tahib_, but I am not a _budmash_.

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900

'This boy,' said Imam Din judicially, 'is a _budmash_ -- a big

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900

That's Buldoo the _budmash_ '--' Bhuldoo be shot! 'sez we,' 'Tis a woild dissolute Pathan frum the hills.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

"I am not a _budmash_, [Footnote: Rascal.] sahib," he exclaimed proudly.

The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895

I happened to glance inside; there was Krauss himself and two fat natives, one a notorious _budmash_, and I noticed that, after I had passed, a hand _pulled down the blind_.

The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma 1884

Just then, still in the costume of an ordinary budmash, but with his face washed clear of his black disguise, Mr Brooke rode up, and asked leave to join the advance.

Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East George Manville Fenn 1870

A little more draw in the cut, and the budmash who did it would have lopped it clean off.

Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East George Manville Fenn 1870