Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One employed in a particular occupation or activity.
- noun An important person in a particular field or organization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also
tapir tiger .
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- noun India A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified after it, for example kitchen wallah.
- noun UK, slang A
guy orbloke . - interjection Common misspelling of
voilà .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aug 5th, 2008 at 1: 32 pm fedthefish tiffin wallah is another great choice. or, if you want an even easier intro to indian go to one of those indo-chinese fusion places in curry hill (like indo munch) that has chinese food but with some indian flare.
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"Hoo!" shouted the black, leaping from the ground, and then bursting out with a strange noise something between a rapid repetition of the word wallah and the gobbling of a turkey-cock; and then seeing that the boys laughed he repeated the performance, waved his clumsy spear over his head, and made a dash at the bullocks, prodding them in the ribs, administering a poke or two to the horses, and sending them off at a gallop toward the port.
The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870
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It is "- wallah," and can be added to a service to denote the kind of person who provides it, generation after generation.
NYT > Home Page By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS 2010
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I slabbed some classic white frosting on top and wallah, I had myself some pretty cupcakes.
PRETTY CUPCAKES Melissa 2009
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I decorated with some vanilla buttercream and wallah!
CLASSIC BIRTHDAY CAKE Melissa 2009
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At his side was his No 2, Danny Alexander, who had accidentally brandished chunks of the speech to the cameras on Tuesday, and who yesterday paid penance by being Mr Osborne's water-wallah, making sure that his glass and carafe were topped up at all times.
Spending review serves up sixpences in a pudding of manure and gravel Simon Hoggart 2010
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Yes | No | Report from J4huntfish wrote 3 weeks 3 days ago get an altoids can and light my fre firesteel take 5 cotton balls smeared in petrolium jelly take som tinfoil wrap th coltton balls in it flatten the tin foil put flint and cotton balls in altoids can and wallah
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started. 2009
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I slabbed some classic white frosting on top and wallah, I had myself some pretty cupcakes.
Archive 2009-02-01 Melissa 2009
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Yes | No | Report from J4huntfish wrote 3 weeks 3 days ago get an altoids can and light my fre firesteel take 5 cotton balls smeared in petrolium jelly take som tinfoil wrap th coltton balls in it flatten the tin foil put flint and cotton balls in altoids can and wallah
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started. 2009
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She also bore another wildman, a science-wallah, a eunuch, a freemartin, and the Princess of the Farther Spaces.
April 5th, 2009 m_francis 2009
colleen commented on the word wallah
Anglo-Indian: carrier-of (howdah-wallah), purveyor-of (chai-wallah), worker-at (office-wallah).
March 11, 2007
yarb commented on the word wallah
Citation on bogs.
August 2, 2008