baboo

English

Noun

baboo (plural baboos)

  1. Dated form of babu.
    • 1835 February, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 104:
      An embezzlement of government money to the extent of about Rs. 2,000 was discovered some time ago in the post-office here, between the baboo, mutsuddy and mohurrer.
    • 1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219:
      […] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]
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