INTERIORS
abshar (stripe pattern)
chatri (canopy)
chandwa (canopy)
chandroday (awning)
lontar (palm leaf)
thermantidote
the excalfactive baths (warming), tepefy
bamboos and sissoos (tree, wood)
jillmilled windows (shuttered with blinds)
jocoles (trifles, baubles)
jhaump (bamboo shutter)
jaffry (screen or lattice-work, of bamboo)
attap (palm fronds for thatching)
Bombay boxwork (decorated with veneers of geometric mosaic)
cuss (grass for screens)
coorsy (seat)
coolicoy (bark matting)
chiquineys (blinds)
charpoy (bedstead)
of interwoven cadjang (palm-leaves)
deuti (lampstand)
dewally (row of lamps)
jinjall (swivel wall-piece)
outmoded
juxtaposed
arsadine (copper leaf)
contrived
propatulary (a., outdoor)
limnery (decorating)
charpoy (cot)
almirah (cabinet, chest)
almury (pointer on astrolabe)
pectinated (interlaced)
verdy (her., charged with leaves)
salempoory (a chintz)
innect (to interlink)
omander (Ceylon wood)
enurny (her. a., with beasts)
pendilatory (hanging)
collimation
verdy (her., charged with leaves)
jamboo (bot.)
internetted
invexed (bowed inward)
lomatined (lobed, margined)
pulvinar (cushion)
seetulputty (grass sleeping mat)
serelepy (various, distinct)
shamianah (canopy)
tanged (provided with a hanging notch)
palampore (bedspread)
tamadine (cellulite for filaments in incandescent bulbs)
tapery (collection of small candles)
cái chum (big jar)
elydoric (re oil + watercolors)
shamianah (awning)
sittringy (cotton-striped carpet)
tatty (mat, screen)
a tapestry of the Turtledom of _______
sakanoire (a chintz)
calamander (wood)
TEXTILES
colberteen (lace)
cambaye (cotton cloth)
sagathy (serge)
rumchunder (fine silk)
shanbaff (textile)
sallo (red cotton)
mulmull (muslin)
adathay (textile)
tusser (inferior silk)
taut (sackcloth)
tabby (colorful silk)
sindoc (fine fabric)
sling (fine goat wool)
dressed in green patch (cotton)
“the finest ormuzine” (from Ormuz)
madapollam (cotton)
byrampaut (cotton stuff)
bangles (glass bracelets)
cumbly (coarse blanket)
dosooty (cheap cotton)
dirdjee (tailor)
dutty (loincloth of respectable castes)
delingo (strong cotton cloth)
goodry (a quilt throw on which Fakirs sleep)
guzzy (cheap cotton cloth)
wadded
talary (tailoring)
vellumy (re lace)
ambarry (~ hemp)
tash (fabric w/ gold & silver threads)
chambray (gingham)
gingham
checkered muslin
chequeen (sequin)
duroy (coarse woolen cloth)
medrinaque (Phil., palm fiber)
moory (blue cloth, Indian)
scrim (light cotton)
tamine (worsted cloth)
colberteen (lace)
cootthay (satin)
shalloon (thin, loosely woven cloth)
cottonary (a., cotton)
paduasoy (text.)
dhunchee (~ hemp)
farandams (fabric of silk and wool)
paramatta (cotton fabric)
jamdani (silk fabric)
tamine (a wool cloth)
candroy (machine for spreading cloth for coloring)
coothay (striped satin of India)
nainsook
sinamay (fine fiber)
cuttanee (linen)
canarine (yellow dye)
NATURE / WEATHER / TOPOGRAPHY
Months:
January to February: Shishira or Magh.
February to March: Phagun/Phalgun.
March to April: Vasanta or Chait.
April to May: Baisakh (Vaisakh).
May to June: Grishma or Jeth/Jyestha.
June to July: Asarh.
July to August: Varsha or Sawan-Sravan.
August to September: Bhadon.
September to October: Sharada or Asvin.
October to November: Kartik.
November (Migser) to December: Hemanta or Aghan.
December to January: Pausa.
caduce (transitory)
chandratap (moonlight)
surfy
vinny (musty)
verge (rice land)
vellard (embankment)
nelly (rice paddy)
“the longshore wind stank of minerals and putrid ________”
landwinds (strong winds from land out to sea)
conker (limestone gravel)
cabook (~ clay)
a myriad of the firefly in the twilight, followed by a rushing wind out of nowhere by way of the nearby jungle-line, foretelling of a monsoon
khudd (steep hillside)
bund (embankment)
where the laccolites of white basalt protruded at odd angles
humective (tending to moisten)
pristinary
saturity (saturation)
salpeetry (a., saltpeter)
rupellary (rocky)
modicity (moderateness)
hesperidate (a., having appearance of an orange) – the morning sun
corry (circular hollow in side of mountain)
putrition
torridity
chalky cliffs
bung
parchy (a., parched)
tepor (warmth)
slorry (s., watery mud)
matutinary (a., morning)
siccific (causing dryness)
halcyonian / halcyonic (calm)
meandry (a., winding)
the pineapple-sweet yellow of the stars in the guava-deep blue of the night
peesash (dust storm)
environry
aleatory
meridian repose
balsamy winds
sirocco
monsoon
the Dãmãni Winds
macareo (tidal flood)
palmy
oaoa (calm, serene, joyous)
white sun
arip (sleepy)
MUSIC
chit-pat (wrestling game)
chanchalana (s., to be playful)
Jatti-gymnasts (a people who are athletic jugglers)
tamasha (street performance with bears)
sitar, tambura and tabla
natani (acrobatic entertainer)
khunjuree (finger tambourine)
dhammar (classical singing)
dhrupad (classical singing)
dub-a-dub (sound of a drum; a drummer)
Dhadi (Sikh who sings martial songs)
gum-gum (~ gong)
banshaw (~ banjo)
banjo
tablitory (body of stringed instr)
palmelodicon (musical glasses)
LS/saltatory (dancer)
Cunchunee (dancing-girl)
LS/tintinnabulary (re: bell sounding)
poogye (nose flute)
surnay (Indian oboe)
surdeline (bagpipe)
singally (the sound of a Calcutta fish)
COLORS
tenney (orange tincture used in herald.)
grapefruit-pink
dunny (dun-colored)
tallowy
concolor (a., of same color)
nacarat (s., reddish orange)
celeste (azure blue)
VEHICLES
tonga (horse-drawn carriage)
brancard (litter)
Andor (litter)
tack-ravan (litter carried on men’s shoulders)
muncheel (litter that resembles hammock)
rut (carriage drawn by ox)
shigrampo (carriage)
dawk-garry (postal coach)
dhooly (covered litter)
hackery (cart)
pullers
liveries
the down train
uncarted (having one’s luggage unloaded from train)
“a way-inspector’s trolley” (Kipling)
cabmen (who drive jitneys)
trekker
landrover
Kamroop Express (railway from Calcutta)
Darjeeling Mail (railway from D)
gharry (wheeled cart)
mogul (heavy locomotive)
pallankeen (litter)
bandyman (driver of a bandy)
hackery (bullock cart)
jampanee (litter-carrier)
jhampani (litter)
cái bào (plane)
combi (minibus)
béndi (2-wheeled carriage)
ojék (motorcycle)
sepéda jéngki (bicycle)
dooley (litter)
ARCHITECTURE / PUBLIC WORKS
chirandi (alley)
Zanana Dyodhi (palace harem)
“finer than the glass at Vaspujyaji...” (Jain temple known for its glasswork)
prashasti (inscription on stone wall)
smark (memorial statue)
stambh (pillar)
the Peacock Courtyard
baradari (pillared hall open on all 4 sides)
baori (deep well with stone steps)
tyconna (basement room for coolth)
soorky (Pounded brick used to mix with lime to form a hydraulic mortar)
torcull (~ pagoda)
toon-wood (~ poor mahogany)
shinbeams, maguire planks, and sheathing boards
the Shishmuhull (glass palace)
reaper (support for tile roof)
picottah (ancient machine for raising water)
pawl (tent)
rowtee (tent with no eaves)
pandaul (~ gazebo)
hiation (yawning gap)
jawaub (a replica of a building)
bobachee-connah (kitchen cottage detached from house)
covid (~ one yard)
chutt (roof, platform)
chopper (thatched roof)
choultry (resting-place for travelers; also a hall for business transactions)
connaught (side wall of tent)
daghope (~ small temple)
gallegalle (A mixture of lime and linseed oil, forming a kind of mortar impenetrable to water)
chunamed (plastered)
standpipes
acrolithic temple
chabootra (terrace)
carnary (burial place)
vicine (neighboring)
rhamphoid (shaped like a beak)
reeper (strip of wood)
corbe (a., curved)
connexity (connectedness)
calicular (like a cup)
an anguine curve (snaky)
secancy (intersection)
cenoby (monastery)
corry (circular hollow in side of mountain)
equicrure (having equal sides)
minchery (nunnery)
phare (lighthouse)
phane (temple)
canaliculated (having grooves)
lactary (s., dairyhouse)
commoney (common marble)
annexary (s., a thing annexed)
salvatory (repository)
annicut (dam)
chittimwood
pepinnery (hort. nursery)
nuttery (place for storing nuts)
choltry (caravansary)
churruck (cotton gin)
acatery (room where purchased provisions are stored)
dwang (strengthening piece of wood set between posts)
pandal (palm-leaf resting hut)
talao (portable water reservoir)
Gangu Kund (a large square tank for purity bathing in Udaipur)
pannary (bread storehouse)
barbacan (fortress)
danaide (water wheel)
ancony (iron bar)
arrectary (upright beam)
The alleyed citadel
sconchoon (arch., squinch)
panduriform (shaped like a violin)
cundy (conduit)
WEAPONS / TOOLS
chob (club)
latties (large clubs)
talwar (scimitar)
katar (dagger)
khando (sword)
gurj (~ mace)
balty (bucket)
zumbooruck (swivel-gun mounted on camel, Muslims)
wacadash (short sword, Jap.)
tier-cutty, used by the toddy-drawer for scarifying palm trees
(nearly verbatim from
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1.hobson )
peshcubz (Persian dagger)
momatty (spade)
catarry (dagger)
cuckery (~ battle-axe)
throe (tool to to split wood)
jumdud (dagger)
chucker (spear)
derry (= derrick)
dammer (pitch, tar)
gudgeon
ghurry (water clock)
uspuck (lever)
cunjur (dagger)
hanger (dagger)
hickmat (a contrivance)
matchlocks
pitfall
pontooning (the construction of pontoon bridges)
chunter (a measurement)
wango (boomerang)
tammy (sieve)
laddery (like a ladder)
jackshay (Austrl. tin pot)
contong (banana-leaf container)
calamined (coated with zinc)
cannabine (re hemp)
javelineer
jaculatory (capable of darting)
serpette (knife)
cuttle (knife)
a muriculate mace (with tiny spikes)
phalaric (fire dart)
sarbacane/sarabacan (blowgun)
shamsheer (sword)
slurbow (~ crossbow)
tinick (thorn, Phil.)
cultellary (re knife)
djib saw
pirri (engraving tool)
crid (dagger)
cung (machine gun)
sauku (whip)
parang (machete)
piao (dart)
pichu (trigger)
caliver (handgun)
peng ali-ali (slingshot)
cane gun
bamboo blowpipe
panade (dagger)
poynado (dagger)
eyeleteer (stiletto dagger)
cuttle (knife)
LABOR / LABORERS
dhoby (a washerman)
maynate (washerman)
lapicidary (stonecutter)
zinc smelter
yoted (he poured molten metal)
scullionry (the cleaning of pots and pans)
precary (a render of boon work)
japannery (where leather is japanned)
indigo factory
curriery
instillatory
soapery (soap factory)
turnery (shop of lathe operator)
climbed the tall lean torso of the palm tree
chatty (earthen pot)
dargue (day’s work)
tampoon (stopper of barrel)
stannary (re tin mines)
gunk
sarculate (to weed)
deywoman (dairy maid)
surdimutism
yagger (peddler)
droy (a drudge)
conjee (vt, to treat with rice water)
bobachee (a cook)
querry (horse groom)
sokemanry (condition of quasi-slavery to another)
oddjobber
pargeter (whitewasher)
chalkcutter (digger of chalk)
catadrome (machine for raising heavy things)
laguay (lackey)
black ivory (slaves)
to sift
collatorium (strainer)
jadder (stone-cutter)
jurr (servant)
dess (to cut from a stack)
CLOTHING
white jean trowsers
vincture (a binding)
pag (~ turban)
lungi (cloth around waist)
long-drawers (pyjamas)
baftahs (~ calico)
mogul breeches (~ pyjamas)
comboy (A sort of skirt or kilt of white calico, worn by Singhalese of both sexes)
chudder (women’s mantle; also sheet over Muslim tombs)
dungarees
a pair of ginger-purple ginghams
breeches
paboosh (= baboosh)
chemiloon (woman’s chemisette + drawers)
jamawaur (native clothing)
shawl
langutty (scant drawers of low classes)
Bengal stripes (ginghams)
pullicate (bandana)
cordy (felt hat)
jodhpurs (pants)
shimmey (shirt)
shintiyan (Muslim baggy trousers)
sindoc (garment of fine cloth)
tarmosined (either side can be worn out; of a jacket)
mantoon (large cloak)
langooty (cloth worn in front over belt by low-classes in India)
sindoc (garment of fine cloth)
jambee (walking cane)
whangre (bamboo walking stick)
samare (women’s robe)
pampootee (slipper)
poplinette tennis shirts & skirts
badjoe (women’s jacket)
topong (brimless hat)
nan-nan (straw hat)
capéo (hat)
cepiau (station-master’s hat, stolen after the Franco-Burmese Railway Riot of 1807)
cutbray trousers
cut-offs
breezy short-sleeve shirt of cloud-white cotton
bandana
cabaye (white cotton shirt)
dooputty (scarf)
MISC.
churt (nap; drowsiness)
chirk (ordure)
carmine (dye from cochineal)
All India Radio
ossuarium (charnel house)
charnel house
“packed like tinned sardines”
ghouls
Gujputty (Cospetir)
Shri (= Mister)
petroline (paraffin from Rangoon)
cully (embrace)
jolloped (wattled)
tanpanama (anonymous)
MILITARY
“He would have us back to the Gagging Act of 1857...” [censorship of Press]
Her Majesty’s Sappers
of the Swaroop Clan
Major Bisco
Chittering Mori (8th CE)
Tughluq Shah II (1388, Muslim Slave Dynasty)
Bahadur (“hero”)
Sante Doss (a Mulim commander)
motatory (keeping in constant motion)
phansigar (thug)
chaplaincy
cadets
“We need another Capperstam, perhaps, eh wot?” (Kaffirstan, where Muslims were not allowed, briefly in Hindu Kush)
fifery
officiary (body of officers)
Lt. Col. Francis Shaw
adminiculary (a., auxiliary, support)
sowar (cavalryman)
jamadar (leader of posse)
javelinier
conrey (troop)
escalader (messenger trained to scale rungs quickly)
swagger stick (metal-tipped cane carried by military officers)
chaud-medley (leg., manslaughter)
authorities trying to stop the thuggery in the _____ district
chappow (a raid)
marching equipace
jeopard (vi, to venture)
sowarry (retinue of cavalry or attendants)
sebundy (irregular soldier, India)
skirmery (skirmishing)
a soldier up with his draft
subaltern
The 323rd Royal Khaki Brigade
sacker (who pillages)
banditry
pétroleur (who uses petro for incindiery purposes)
patay (to kill; to die)
General Stringer Lawrence (~ post 1750)
Cawn (military title)
aspic (ordnance w/ shot)
proctory (s., surveillance)
cuttry (military caste)
Dallaway (a commander of army, S. India)
a gole of cavalry (main body)
goorzeburdars (mace-bearers)
goorcully (Nepalese regiment)
Ghurjaut (hill chief)
Havildar (a sepoy non-commissioned officer, corresponding to a sergeant)
the ______ Irregulars
ressaidar (native subaltern of irregular cavalry)
pyke/paik (foot-soldier)
koshoon (division of men, Tipu Sahib)
Eysham (Muslim militia)
Dulloway (commander)
Sirdar (commander)
sillaposh (armored warrior)
the Pindarry (Muslim plunderers)
Pandy (caste for Sepoys)
Nud-Jeeves (infantrymen)
Naique (general)
Nairs (knights)
Naib (deputy)
Topasses (Christian Indo-Portuguese caste – soldiers)
Mandadore (commander of tribe)
looties (plunderers)
Lascarines (foot-soldiers)
Cusselbash (elite cavalrymen)
Khuttry/Cuttery (military caste)
Jaish (Muslim legion)
Jemautdar (a military commander)
jack-sepoy (native soldier)
Toomongong (Malay Muslim chief)
Burkhandhars (matchlock men)
ROYALTY
HISTORY
Vijay Stambh (built by Maharana KUMBHA (1433-1468) between 1440 and 1448 to commemorate his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa)
“From Udai to Asta...” (from sunup to sundown)
the House of Salumbar
When the Mughal Emperor’s elephants marched through the Debari Pass into Girwa (the “Circle” in which Udaipur is situated)
Queen Pooshpavati
Sultan Iltutmish (13th CE)
Hamir Sank (legendary figure of Ceylon)
Gyangadh (a title of a ruler)
Ghurid Dynasty (Afghan Muslim invaders, 13th CE)
Balco (famous warrior)
Sir Pertab Singh (Regent of Jodhpur, early 20th, born 1845)
Madho Singh (19th century ruler?)
Tanwar (Rulers of Delhi 736-1150. Royal family of
Patan, Mandholi and Gwalior)
the Battle of Plassey (1768-1771)
the great Chuckmuck (a Muslim ruler of yore)
OFFICIALS / OTHER ROYALTY
Yuvrani (wife of heir-apparent)
Umrao (nobleman)
Khazanchi (Treasurer)
the Huzur Secretary (private secretary)
Exchequer of the Privy Purse (money the princes received from the government after giving up their raj)
Beebee (= Dame)
Melique Verido (a Muslim dynasty)
Chuckerbutty (Bengal, Emperor)
the Podshaw (Mogul) about to grant his Omedwaur with a promotion
the Mohammedan presented him with a muster of cloves / bade him sit on his Shahabad cotton carpet
Sophy (The Sophy was the King of Persia -- as the Sultan of Turkey was "The Turk" or "Grand Turk," and the King of Delhi the "Great Mogul.")
Taluqdars of Oudh (_________)
controlled the portfolio of the Exchequery
bahawder (title of respect for officials, mostly Euro)
satrapess (female satrap)
siogoon (= shogun)
emissary
potentate
Sultan of Pedir (in Sumatra)
Camaicam (governor of district Turkey)
Emeer (Emir)
Caimacam (viceroy)
King Jubar
Lord Pomeroy
bashaw (ruler)
bey (ruler)
dey (ruler)
satraper (satrap)
Ashrafee (a noble)
cutwaul (police officer)
lordling
a Hindu who could trace his ancestry back to Maharaja Scindia Daulatrao Scindia (of Gwalior) 1794/1827, born 1779/80, died 20th March 1827
a Hindu who could trace his ancestry back to Dwarkojirao Ranojirao Ghorpade of Kapshi, in Bombay
a Musulman who could trace his ancestry back to Ali Raja Bibi Hayashabe (of SW coast, 1838/1852)
muntree (high official)
Thanadar (police chief)
the Praw-Clang (Burmese officer of commerce)
moonshee (secretary)
the Ticksally (superintendent of Mint)/ tuxall (the Mint)
SERVANTS
shikari (hunter, tracker)
patty-wally (attendant)
seedy boy (Negro servant, orig. Muslim)
he punkawed the king (fanned him)
tarryar (watchman)
chuckaroo (boy servant)
mate (assistant)
druggerman (interpreter)
cossid (a runner)
tappy peon (runner)
padder (highwayman)
chamberlain
civil servant
cubiculary (chambermaid)
syce (stable groom)
hubshee (Negro)
siddy (black Muslim, India)
aide
hircarrah (foot messenger)
dubash/dobash (interpreter)
clashy, clashees (tent-pitchers)
debash (intepreter)
didwan (watchman)
frash (menial servant)
gorahwallas (horse grooms)
harries/hurries (servants)
lackeyed (attended by lackeys)
marmutties (road engineers)
linguister (interpreter)
kittysol-boy (who holds umbrella over master)
jancada (a guide)
tabellary (scrivener; letter-carrier)
surwaun (camel-man)
pattamar (runner; see SHIPS)
MISC
ultimogeniture (handing crown to youngest son)
pankhi (hand-fan)
my foster brother, the Dhabai of _______
Bapji (honorific title)
palinoded (recanted)
didascalar (didactic)
ciceroned (guided)
Salute State (A Salute state was a princely state (i.e. reigned by a native ruler of princely rank) which the British colonial paramount ruler has granted a gun salute)
turpaul (tarpaulin)
seerpaw (complete dress for honors)
nuzzer (ceremonial gift)
the King’s Mutlub (wish)
mussaul (torch)
musnud (royal cushion-as-throne)
a treasury of gold mohurs (coins)
“his [men] extended the gold-brocaded and crimson silk Al-Catif [rug] for the rival to sit upon...”
xerafim (silver coin, Portuguese)
He’s the Upper Roger, right he is...” (the Heir-Apparent)
surrapurda (canvas screen surrounding royal tent)
sombay (a present)
Sarray (an Inn)
he puckerowed his cattle (seized)
fly-whisk
issued his decree on the Mascabar (last day of month)
Kissmiss (servant’s term for Christmas)
took a campaign all the way to the Turkmen Kiosque
mandament (command)
backdore (leading rein for horse)
collery-horn (blown at funerals)
chawbucked (whipped)
cangue (pillory)
punishment by uncalvet (impalement through the back)
Dhurgaw (the royal court)
he dumbcowed him (browbeat him)
Phousdarry (criminal court in Bombay)
the Gussell Chan (grand hall of mogul)
guddy (throne cushion)
R.S.V.P, D.V.P.S.P. -- decessedit vita patris sine prole (died in the lifetime of his father without issue)
broach
dynastic
idiasm (peculiarity)
The Government Chest (building)
Vatteluttu (Tamil alphabet)
vernility (senility)
jaculiferous (bearing prickles)
prodromy (presage)
rahdaree (road tolls)
tanacle (to torture w/ pincers)
tamasha (gala event)
chamar (peacock fan for royalty)
“I will chasty the culprit!”
chatta (umbrella)
chapping stick (weapon)
incult (coarse, not cultured)
peroratory (re speech)
cunctipotency (omnipotence)
luxure (luxury)
vernacularity
sharoosed (taken aback, surprised)
sanguinity
puerpery (state of a woman after childbirth)
pudency (modesty)
prepucy (foreskin)
potty (toilet)
phantomatic (a.)
barrister
phantomry (phantoms collectively)
norry (foster child)
indole (without guile)
enfettered
dissentany (a., disagreeing)
dioptry (a diopter)
desidery (desire)
concuby (concubine)
circinately (in a circle)
carcanetted (wearing ornamental necklaces)
cancrine (a., re palindrome)
tripinnately
tablitory (body of stringed instrument)
cumpanary (companionship)
plumassery (ornamental feathers)
jocantry (merriment)
parvipotent (having little power)
cheek
truckled to (was submissive to)
susurrus
vectitation on a litter (act of carrying; a being carried)
palmary (outstanding)
plethory (excess)
volupty (voluptuousness)
sashay (excursion)
consimility (common resemblance)
annotatory
Kathiawar horses
satrapical (a., satrap)
poschay (post chaise)
precellency (excellence, pre-eminence)
puggry (scarf worn around helmet)
sashery (collection of sashes)
sinnowed (finely ornamented)
sittandly (becomingly)
sumpture (splendor, excess)
janglery (jangling)
curney (company of persons)
cangued (punished with pillory)
he dumbcowed him (browbeat)
jamber (leg armor)
scute (horny shield)
cecutiency – fat sultan, visits town with pomp (partial blindness)
he coorbashed him (whipped him)
cutcherry (hall of justice; registrar)
choltry (Hindu caravansaray)
Underministry
beadlery (office, jurisdiction of a beadle)
gaudery
pennached (striped)
the swaddlery of the infant Hindu prince
surquidry (overweening arrogance)
imbannered
jobbery (corruption among gov. officials)
panji-panji (banner)
LAND LAWS
badhawara (Bengalese guard over crops)
achandrargam (perpetual tenure of land as long as moon and sun endure)
patwari (accountant)
abwab (Arabic, impost)
zamindar (feudal landholder)
tariff
cottery (house/land of cotter)
detinue (action to recover possession of lands wrongfully detained)
tuckeed (official reminder)
syre (items of taxation and impost)
impost
ryotwarry (settlement for land revenue directly between Government and individual)
rowannah (a permit)
purwanna/perwauna (grant under royal seal)
munsubdar (feudal dependant)
juptee (lands confiscated)
inaum (gift of rent-free land)
dufter (decree on paper)
diggory (decree)
Adhikari (man in charge of accounts in a tribe)
zubtee (cash rent on crops)
tappaul (mail post, service of S. India)
sowcar (banker)
shambogue (village clerk)
poolbundy (civil dept. in charge of embankments)
pergunnah (subdivision of district)
parabyke (book)
nerrick (tariff, rate of exchange)
mootsuddy (accountant)
mehaul (parcel of land)
meerassy (holder of inherited property)
lote (banknote)
lishtee (list)
lackerage (= jizya)
latmar (who raises embankments to irrigate land and thereby to inherit that land)
juncaneer (collector of customs)
bundobust (revenue settlement)
cranny (clerk)
coss (one mile)
coomry (burning forest on hillsides)
jhoom ( “ )
chitty (certificate)
carcoon (clerk, manager)
dustuck (a permit)
sudder dewanny (civil court as opposed to criminal, Muslim)
a factor (agent)
gomashtah (agent)
munny (A measure of land used in the neighbourhood of Madras)
rubber-tappers
parcelling (act of dividing up)
bundobust (arrangement, settlement)
tahsildar (revenue collector)
talookdarry (landholding tenure)
supputation
paction (agreement)
parastatal (company owned by gov.)
tuncar/tuncaw (assignment on revenue of locality in favor of an individual)
I.S.W.G. (Imperial Standard Wire Gauge)
cawney (1.3 acres)
“Mr. X impresses one by his attentiveness to the mundane details and problems of those with whom the purview of his jurisdiction does not even directly apply; while Mr. Y, on the other hand [etc.]”
charterer (who holds charter to land)
keelivine (black lead pencil)
matriculary (s., register)
patroonry (re: proprietorship of land)
saranjam (tenure by which land grant is held)
tendry (a legal offer)
tollery (collection of tolls)
tuncaw (assignment on revenue of a locality in
favor of an individual)
zemindary (property, area)
judicatory
commodity
mulctuary (a., re penalty, fine)
tenementary (a., capable of being leased)
sarplar (bale of wool)
allodiary (s., who holds a freehold estate)
pandects (laws)
pishcush (levy, tax)
caduciary (re: forfeiture of property)
cullery (tenure of small landholdings)
cuké (duty on tobacco)
rahdaree (road tolls)
jaghirdar (holder of a district)
Dewanny (office of collector of revenues in Bengal)
FLORA
Trees
badidapu chettu (flowering tree)
ave-mavo (deciduous tree -- tummy tree in Philippines)
thorny jack
ambatch (slender tree used to make canoes)
chirindi (~ maple)
vaday (acacia)
seet-net (Burmese acacia)
nimbar (acacia)
phullah (acacia)
siriss (acacia)
ohinni
murupindi
dugdug (breadfruit tree)
am
siris
sadar
jamun
dudhi
imli
ayar-ayar (fruit-bearing tree)
jhau
rowce (Himalayan tree)
khejri
mokha
sehtoot
shisham
timru
Shrubs
avurtunni (yields fruits)
adatodey
adhashishi
andhijhara
arusi
bajradanti
tephrosi
heyne
acacia
fanjani
jharber
mehendi
tulsi
Climbers
bajarbel
chirmur
rathi
atta patti (creeper)
dudhi
ari kiray (~ clover)
ishwara-muri
malkangani
narkanta
tripatti
Grasses
aujun
baroo
sorghum
bhangta
buhari
munj
alang-alang (Malaysian)
rosha
sarwal
doob
jeel-chumli (weed)
_____
coker-nut
neel (indigo)
agar-agar (Malay, seaweed)
whangee (slender yellow bamboo)
salep/saleb (~ orchid)
sagwire (a palm tree)
sweet oleander
sticklac (lac on sticks)
spicknard
nypeira (wild palm)
mendy (plant that yields henna dye)
jhow (tamarisk brush)
dhawk (small bushy tree)
emblic (tree with myrobalan fruit)
banyan tree
waddy-wood (tree)
tharginyah (Aus. shrub)
melonry (place for growing melons)
tope (orchard)
tabasheer (bamboo joint exuding med. sugar – bamboo pith)
nopalry (plantation of nopal for raising cochineal insects)
palmery
ratoon (new shoot on sugarcane)
stramony (jimson weed)
tangerinery
sanguinary (bot.)
putchuk (fragrant root, Kashmir)
olorine (grass eaten by swans)
salihe (willow)
taray (Sp., tamarisk)
padauk (tree)
florimer (a plant)
lentisk (mastic tree)
pomiculturist
red toon (bot.)
Bismark palm
caudicle (thingy in orchids to which pollen attaches)
plashoot (hedge of interlaced branches)
thitsee (tree; varnish)
sirpoon (tree)
atanday (flower)
cassidony (French lavender)
jamboo (bot.)
lentiscine (re: mastic tree)
marram grass (beach grass, Aus.)
stemmy (abounding in stems)
RELIGION
Avirami Paddar (holy man of 17th CE, Hindu)
Asanyasatta (Buddhist state of unconsciousness)
Yempramanar (ancient saint)
chut-salami (money paid by groom on morning after sex with bride: chut = vulva)
chaturdashi (14th day of moon’s age)
Yogi Nirbhaynath (legendary saint)
tirthayatra (holy pilgrimage)
Sannyasi (ascetics)
samadhi (cremation ground)
Rishi Dayanand (19th CE religious scholar)
Pusti Marg (cult that worships Krishna child)
Prithvi (the Earth)
pujari (Hindu priest)
Pradyumna (son of Krishna)
Laxmi (Hindu goddess)
jauhar (self-immolation of women)
Dwarikadish (form of Krishna)
junior chaplain in charge of sick furlough
the Metropolitan of Ceylon (Christian position)
Ramdam
Peer (Muslim saint)
the Noe Rose (Persian New Year)
muth (convent for celibate priests)
Mufti / Cauzy (Muslim interpreters of law)
Mole-Islam (a class of Muslims in Guzerat) formerly forcibly converted)
Mohurrum (Shia 10-day festival for death of Hussein)
Mobed (a Persian priest)
Maryacars (Catholics in Muslim Malabar)
joss-stick
Cassanar (priest of Syrian Church of Malabar)
Sammy (= Swami: respectful title of address to Brahmans)
Poonghee (Buddhist monk)
Poojaree (priest at idol temple)
Paulists (Jesuits)
pandaram (Hindu ascetic)
Nambooree (Malabar Hindu priest)
Dadu Panthi (Hindu sect)
jadughar (~ temple)
The Palace of the Myriad Buddhas
cattanar (Syrian rite priest in India)
destoor (Parsi high priest)
hurbood (lower priest)
tallapoy (Buddhist monnk)
ostracy (ostracism)
pagody (pagoda)
Moonshee (Muslim professor; interpreter)
undergod
shaster (Hindu treatise)
a Buddhist monk with the scarlet ampassy on his robe (= ampersand)
cenoby (monastery)
oneirocrite (dream interpreter)
ostiary (doorkeeper at Catholic church)
scapulimancy (divination by observing shoulder-blade)
shaster (instruction manual for the Vedas)
sanashy (person devoted to contemplation)
pulahanism (religious fanaticism)
ponghee (Buddhist priest)
TOBACCO
saunders (sandalwood)
tritchies (cigars)
gave him a light with a ramasammy (twisted cotton lit)
bang (~ hashish)
paune (betel, to chew)
bunco/buncus (~ leaf cigar)
chillum (terracotta basin of hooka)
hubble-bubble (hooka)
snuff from an ivory mull (snuffbox)
oronoco (tobacco)
bangue (narcotic leaves to chew)
mundungus (stinking tobacco)
chandoo (opium for smoking)
bonded jacky (tobacco)
cunicule (water-pipe)
calahan (water pipe for tobacco)
delenific (assuaging, soothing)
orangery (orange-scented snuff)
sape (concoction of herbs)
dudheen (short pipe)
SPEECH
Baboo (“Your Excellence”...)
Chalo! (Begone!)
“Chiranjiv!” (May you live long!)
“It’s all fudge, I tell you...”
namaskar (= namaste)
po! po! (take heed)
gup-gup (gossip)
“[last name of Westerner] + sahib + bahaudur” = great title of respect
he jawabbed him (answered him)
teek (precise, punctual)
Shahbash! (Well done! Bravo!)
Ram-Ram! (Hindu greeting)
Kubberdaur! (Take care!)
Get blown, Tackey.
Ahi! Baup-aree! (surprise, grief)
“It’s a dilly!”
Banchoot ____! (a., fucking ______!)
cacoepy (bad pronunciation)
Asoymasoy Tahana!
Sango Arrimby!
Aho! (surprise)
Toké lu! (You jerk)
Astaganaga! (Gee whiz!)
awé-awé (hand wave)
Barang-Barang! (Would that it were so)
Tunggulah Dulu! (Wait a minute!)
paméo (proverb)
Pikir dulu! (Think twice)
Pyuh-Pyuh (surprise)
FAUNA
bajar-kit (anteater)
bearcat
rucervine (re: deer genus)
carrion crow
sambhar (deer)
bear
porcupine
mongoose
teal
fantail snipe
blue frock pigeon
nahar (tiger)
nag (cobra)
paspalism (poisoning from grass)
yaboo (pack horse)
skeen (ibex)
luckerbaug (~ hyena)
brandy-cutes (muskrats)
avadavat (cage-bird)
lagarto (alligator)
zobo/zhobo (yak-cow hybrid, Tibet)
whistling teal (~ duck)
tair (wild goat Himalayas)
tattoo (pack-horse)
tanyan (Tibetan pony)
surrow (antelope)
shoe-goose (lynx)
sambre/sambur (stag)
tic-polonga (super-venomous snake)
bay pegues (horses)
brahminy-kite (bold kite)
mugger (crocodile)
markhore (wild goat. Himalayas)
mannickjore (stork)
loories (~ parrots)
heard a serpent hizz
buansuah (wild dog)
jays (birds)
cullum (crane)
chinches (bed-bugs)
the prince’s elk
black-buck (antelope)
giraffe
caor (ox)
hooluck (gibbon)
lungoor (great ape, considered holy)
shikaree (hunting guide)
mugger (crocodile)
brinjaree (~ greyhound)
chicker (to chirp)
underfong (to insnare)
manucode (orn.)
chacker (orn.)
tilyer (starling)
sanguivore
haucepy (trap for wild beasts)
anguid (a type of snake)
nadder (adder)
ptilocerque (zool, pentail)
tingid (re species of floral pest)
tesser (silkworm)
nayaur (Tibet wild sheep)
nestorine (re genus of parrots)
phalangy (venomous spider)
plectopter (a kind of fly)
plovery (a., abounding in plovers)
ranny (erd shrew)
satyrine butterfly
sciniph (stinging insect)
servaline (re: serval, a feline)
siamang (black gibbon)
talpe (a mole)
tipulid (a.s., fly)
cunicular (living in burrows)
zingsang (delundung)
linsang (a mammal)
palm marten
tangalung (civet)
halicore (~ manatee)
petaurine (re marsupial)
colubrine (re snake)
cebine (a., re monkey order)
cepevore (feeds on onions)
cervicaprine (a., re deer genus)
daggy (a., re sheep)
jacamaropine (a., re order of birds)
jerrow (Indian deer)
banxring (mammal)
brinjaree (~ greyhound)
phalangistine (s., arboreal marsupial)
scutelliplantar bird (re scutella on front)
sarlac (Mongolian yak)
turbitteen (~ pigeon)
spayade (male red deer)
yaguarundi (jaguar)
margay (~ leopard)
talary (tailoring)
palmivore
FOODS / DRINK
balam-puli (tamarind)
aunthulupabay (balsam pear)
palm sap (for liquor)
amaranth
poonaghutti bhaji (herb, greens)
chussi (fruit juice)
chupri (a., greasy)
chimchima (oil)
chambu (narrow-necked vessel for water)
chashah (drinking cup)
char (pepper soup)
chashni (sweet-and-sour relish)
cassa-cassa (poppy seed)
atenday (shrub/fruit in Bengal)
dubber (leather vessel)
jhari (drinking vessel)
sheermaul (a sweet cake)
semball (spiced condiment)
nuncaties (Muslim cakes)
majoon (cake of hemp, butter, milk, sugar, poppy)
jowaree (millet)
hing (gum-resin condiment)
cuscuss
bandicoy (~ okra)
zerumbet (aromatic root, spice)
“shooing the Ginnie cocks about the kitchen garden as she swept the dirt...”
tiparry (fruit)
to take a tiff (take a drink)
campoy (black tea)
surpoose (cover for dish, bowl, houkka)
sengtereh (~ orange)
sucket (sweetmeats)
adrac (ginger)
haldi (turmeric)
soursop (a fruit)
cherimoyer (a fruit)
a sneaker (small punch-bowl) of punch
mango sherbet
samshoo (rice arrack)
saguire (palm liquor)
rambotang (Malay fruit)
raggy (type of grain)
puckauly (oxhide waterbag, 20 gallons)
popper-cake (thin lentil cake)
pomphret (fish)
pollock-saug (country spinach)
pishpash (soup)
petersilly (parsley) (“She [name] knows how to make it [some dish] the way I like it – with petersilly & etc.”
“the tables were decked with festive palangposhes” (tablecloths)
ooplah (cow dung dried into cakes for fuel)
naund (earthen vessel)
capsicum (an herb)
mussuck (leather water bag)
munj (a mush of vetch)
moley (a wet curry dish with coconut)
miscery (sugar candy)
mash
maumlet (omelet)
mace
a leaguer of rum
larkin (a punch)
claret
kishmish (raisin)
buggy-connah (coach-house kitchen)
kitchery (mess of rice)
kedgeree-pot
madjoon (a confection)
jelaubee (sweetmeat of sugar and ghee)
jelly
jamoon (fruit)
rack punch (arrack)
atchar of green mangoes (pickles)
college-pheasant (a N Indian pheasant)
cobily mash, commel mutch (bonito)
chupatty (flat wheat cakes)
chitchky (curried vegetable mix)
chillumchee (basin)
cheeny (sugar)
dumpoke (baked dish, of duck, etc.)
dubber (large oval vessel)
dolly (complimentary offering of fruits, etc.)
fool’s rack (arrack)
gazat (dessert)
ghee (butter)
gindy (teapot)
gingelly (seed/oil)
Goa potato
hattychook (artichoke)
hoppers (cakes)
millet
posset (milk drink)
B.&S. (brandy and soda)
kumquat
pan-fry
ragoo (ragout)
tayir (curdled milk)
breadstuff
tampoy (Moluccas drink)
calipash (fatty part under turtle shell)
the chankings of fruit (spare parts after eating)
chalder (pot)
chits (sprouts)
chatter water (weak tea)
chatty (pot)
chard
cherry bounce (brandy + sugar)
macellator (butcher)
saucery (place for spices)
moodooga oil
salinity
punatoo (palmyra fruit preserves)
pook (to pluck, fowl)
frixory (frying pan)
edule (edible)
curny (granulated)
red lemon, red lime
insapory (tasteless)
guttatrap (juice of tree)
panshon (vessel for liquids)
eupepticity (state of good digestion)
a duracine cherry
anacardic (re cashew)
nectarian
pistrine (bakery)
porray (fish soup)
sangareed his brandy (added spices)
sangaree (rum drink)
pomerine
calculary (s., congeries of knots in a pear)
saloop (sassafras drink)
coddy (with husks, pods)
rackapee (arrack)
nutritionary
banana corm
bindy (okra)
brandy-pawnee (brandy & water)
jamrosade (fruit of rose apple)
loll schraub (claret)
shude (rice mill refuse, for cakes)
cumin
coosh (naval crackers softened in water, fried in bacon grease)
provender
sorgho (bot. – syrup)
camu camu (Pacific fruit)
cush (sorghum)
vitellary (a., egg yolk)
tilley seed
annotine (1-year-old bird)
malacotoon/malacatune (a quince)
jaggery (coarse sugar)
cassumuniar (~ ginger)
tiffining (to take lunch)
tung oil, fish cakes fried in
poonac (coconut cake)
soojee (fine flour)
teelseed (sesame)
upsprung onions
pomedorry (rissole)
pommetty (~ apple sauce)
mulligatawny (curry soup)
pabulary (re sustenance)
acetary (acid pulp in fruit)
cashoo (mimosa tree nut)
assamar (yellow substance when meat and bread are burnt)
sanguine cocktail
Spices
lemon grass
saffron crocus
bergamot citron
coriander
cumin
Guinea pepper
Nepal chillies
Indian fennel
spearmint
mace
anise
ajwain
white pepper
clary
vanilla
ginger
tamarind
mustard
sintoc
massoy
CHARACTER FLAVOR
the Agri-Horticultural Society of Lahore, est. 1851
“Green about the ears, he strode straight from the train station to Tank-square [Gov. accomodations Calcutta] for his lodging...”
“Between the palms and the sea
Where the world-end steamers wait...” (Kipling, a poem tribute to Bombay)
Convention of the International Eucalyptography
Society
winner at the Civil Service Cup (horses)
molly (a caste of gardeners) – his “house molly”
petulancy
birdwatcher
coxcombry (foppery)
cicisbeo (walking stick; knot of silk on fan)
Dudley had difficulty with the properispomes [words with accents on penult] of the Hindi language
caffoy paper
pasquillic (re writing lampoons)
Dudley, drunk on the Klippspringer rug before the fire
nabob (who returns from the East w/ great riches)
winner of the Jetprole Cup (in cricket)
tickytaw boys (singers with nautch-girls)
“They’ll just try to foozilow you” (cajole, flatter)
“Burma, the land of rubies and tigers...”
white jackets for dinner
summerhead (large umbrella)
shoke (a hobby, a whim)
pigdaun (spittoon)
'feuille de patchey' (patchouli)
loocher (a lewd loafer)
bobbery-bob (a row, disturbance)
ditchers (Europeans of Calcutta, disparagingly)
failsoof (native who comes back from Europe with affected manners and clever tricks up his sleeve)
griffish (a johnny-come-lately to India)
privations
education, the Boondi Free School
lived in a walk-up tenement on Brigade Road in Bangalore
chirrupy (cheerful, lively)
houndstooth & herringbone
dictery (witty jest)
“my chamber fellow at King’s College” (roommate)
chappie (little fellow; fop)
chapbook (of pop lit)
chee-chee (half-breed Indian-English; the mincing English spoken by same)
tawpy (foolish, clumsy)
savoyed (wrinkled, like cabbage)
peaky (thin, sickly)
NEWSPAPERS
the _________ Courier
The Cricket Pundit
The Tellicherry Times
Gazetteer
MASSAGE
desudatory (a hot bath)
malactic (soft, tending to soften) – massage
massoy (bark ( oil) -- massage
salvy (unctuous, like salve) – massage
axungiety (lard)
chopper cot (tent bed)
FISHES
chingri (prawn)
sea krait (venomous eel)
labco-calbasu
cyprinus carpio
chank (large shell)
soosoo (~dolphin in Bay of Bengal and rivers)
chank (large spiral seashell)
chipe (oysters)
callow (sea duck)
sanny (sandpiper)
malashaganay (fish)
langaray (Phil. fish)
panchax (tropical fish)
mordixim (fish)
sentoree (fish)
cavally (fish)
goroon shell
dimyary (a.s., mollusk)
sephen (sting ray)
cete (whale)
langya (“walking” fish)
sunsquall (jellyfish)
tigrone (tiger shark)
callow (sea duck)
emyd (a turtle)
SHIPS & TRADE
budgerow (large flat barge, usually on Ganges)
cassis (a genus of shells: the red-green version is shipped from the Maldives to Ceylon, and also to Italy for the making of cameos)
carnelian from Cambay
Deo (god of the Bagrawat tribe)
zimbiperry (ginger) from Gumbrown (port city, Persia)
rum-johnnies (a low class of native servants who plied on the wharves of Calcutta in order to obtain employment from new-comers.)
pulwah (boat)
pattamar (lateen-rigged ship)
mussoolah (surf boat of Coromandel coast)
Manilla-men (dealers in corals)
istoop (old fiber for caulking seams)
duggie (timber)
backsee (= aback)
tones (wooden boats)
Alfandica (resort for foreign merchants)
the Zirbad (the regions East of India -- Malacca, Sumatra, Tenasserim, Bengal, Martaban, Pegu.)
trankey (Persian Gulf boat)
the Tiyar (“islanders”, Malabar coats people)
tallica (invoice)
Swally Marine (roadstead N. of mouth of Taptee River (at Gulf of Cambay, W. coast at Arabian Sea), for exports/imports)
porgo (dugout canoe)
pohoon-masts (of pohoon timber)
pinnace (merchant ship)
paunchway (light river boat)
pattymar (swift vessel)
panguaye (raft)
Panjangam (Almanac)
the Orancaya Pute (Malay prince)
a message written on an ollah (palmyra leaf)
nacoder (skipper)
sarhang (skipper)
moorpunky (pleasure-boat)
“to Tidori of the Spice Islands... (Moluccas)”
a chest of gold madrafaxaos (coins)
the tidal currents of the Macareo
atoll
Amoy (great seaport, China)
Bankshall (office of harbor master)
éBando! (tie the rope fast!)
cuddy (captain’s cabin)
cutmurram (raft of logs)
“as far East as Nangasaque...” (Japan)
“all the way from Chinchew...” (~ China)
“all the way to Jangomay...” (Laos)
calauz (swift rowboat)
dhoni (small ship)
dhow (boat)
dandees (boatmen)
gellywatt (war galley)
ghaut (quay, dock)
the gordowers from Bengal (boats)
Straits of Sincapure (Singapore) from Siam to the China Sea, bringing shipments of darcheenee (cinnamon)
gruff (bulk goods)
a naval scuffle off of Hendry-Kendry... [islands]
cargo-steamer
liners
watermen (boatmen)
where the balangays (Phil. canoe) come from Malay
nabuoy
interinsular
interamnian (between rivers)
water stang (poles across stream as bridge)
vangee (barrel to pump pvessels)
picarooned (vi, act as a pirate)
estuarine
steerer
pessoner (boat)
the chaloupes cannonières (French gunboats)
laveer (to tack against the wind)
panshway (boat)
Indiaman (large merchant ship of yore)
Tally - The operation of hauling aft the sheets, or drawing them in the direction of the ship's stern.
undulary (moving like waves)
tramelloid (jelly-like)
banty (bantam)
anguicular (a., eel)
lacune (lacuna)
gaydiang (Anamese vessel)
piscatory
conder (who watches shoals of fish)
moguey (raft)
nesiote (inhabiting an island)
pataxo (small boat that attends to fleet, as courier of supplies, etc.)
poy (pole to move boat)
seacunny (steersman)
palinurus (ship’s compass)
pilotry
islander
bunder (quay, landing place)
piscary (fishmonger)
carrack (15th CE galleon)
corocore (Malay light vessel)
mercatorial (re: Mercator’s naval projections)
pigboat (submarine)
patroon (ship captain)
pinnace (small man-of-war boat)
squid-jigger (fishline with many hooks)
panchway (small boat, Bengal)
patamar (a ship)
shabunder (harbor master)
dhony (Ceylonese boat)
coxswain (helmsman)
timoneer (steers ship)
Nucquedah (ship master)
peritreme (edge of aperture of shell)
paramere (half of starfish)
THE MARKET
bheesty (a water-man for households)
brinjarry (salt-dealer)
still (for alcohol)
puxshaws of ________
Brahminy bulls let loose to run the market...
botickeer (shopkeeper)
beoparry (a petty trader)
bdellium (aromatic gum-resin)
banghy (shoulder-yoke for carrying loads)
a culsey [amount; weight] of mangoes
Compradore (Portuguese purchaser)
chowk (main street)
chowdry (head craftsman)
chicanery (taking advantage)
chetty (member of trading caste; chief of corporation)
carraway
canteroy (coin)
crore (amount of money: 1 crore of rupees = one million sterling)
deaner (= shilling)
dadny/dadney (an advance made to craftsman by a trader)
a garce of rice (9,600 lbs.)
a frail (basket) of figs
gingerlee (a coin)
cosbeague (coin: 10 = 1 shahee or pice)
gubber (gold coin)
gunny (sack)
venders
pack-bullocks
the peddlar bajulated (bore) his belongings upon
his back
weevilly (infested with weevils)
boxwallah (native peddler)
spicer (dealer in spices)
chaffy (light, worthless)
chapman (dealer)
viary (re: roads)
toluked him (tore him to pieces)
sunderly (variously)
quadrine (copper coin = farthing)
pulicary (flea-bearing)
peddlery
pecuny (money)
patchery (roguery)
junt (trick, fraud)
jundy (a jog, jostle)
jucundity (agreeableness)
flukey (inconstant)
empory (emporium)
dacity (energy, smartness)
collery (thief among Dravidians; a salt pan)
cenosity (filthiness)
candareen (Malay weight of account)
callid (crafty)
yarely (eagerly)
on the jee (on the move)
cullibility (gullibleness)
buckshee (something extra)
he cuttered (talked sotto voce)
chicaned (deceived)
troke (to barter)
pawky (cunning)
jabber (rapid talking)
dodgery (trickery)
sundryman (who deals in sundries)
bobbery (squabble, tumult)
the noise, gaudy venditation of their wares
corge (20)
merchandry (commerce, trade)
charlatanry
palter (to quibble in bargaining)
yagger (peddler)
nundinary (re: market or fair)
palter (to act deceitfully; haggle)
mercadore (merchant)
mercantile
junketeered
SOCIETY
badava-hrita (man who becomes a slave in order to marry a slave woman)
bratty (cakes of dried dung)
punchhouses (low-rent diggings)
mangonize (traffic in slaves)
spin (unmarried lady)
poggle (village idiot)
muddle (a “double” who does some of the work for somebody without the boss or master knowing)
Mocuddum / Muckadum (head of village)
soorma (black eyeliner)
pootly-nautch (puppet show)
pigsticking (boar-hunting)
shabroon (ragamuffin)
spintry (a sodomite)
tirrivee (commotion)
the Channellers’ Union Strike riots of 1874 (machinists)
chance child (illegitimate child)
scaevity (unluck; lefthandedness)
parcity (scantiness)
ladrone (rogue, rascal)
patavinity (provincialism in language)
coccyput (a congenitally deformed beggar who has no back, neck directly attached atop coccyx, with bloated chest/stomach – source of fascination for one English expatriate doctor)
lazary (leprosy)
crore (ten millions)
agog, akimbo, amok
the sluttery of the red lantern district
MEDICINE
walko-gundo (Singhalese herb, for med. --> anti-spasmodic for hysteria)
panicale (swelling of the feet)
vaccination
the Tanjore pill (antidote to bite of wild dogs, snakes)
omum water
nowshadder (chloride of ammonium)
mordisheen (cholera)
a leper colony in Mysore
biddy (nurse)
mat ward (maternity ward)
atriplicism (poison from a type of spinach)
sprue (tropical disease – diarrhea, emaciation)
vincture (a binding)
siliciuret (a silicon compound)
senny (cathartic Middle Eastern drug from herb)
scillipikrin (bitter diuretic)
mordisheen (cholera)
medicatory (curative)
maladive (a., sick)
laniary (re laceration)
conquinine (med.)
collutory (med. mouthwash)
oncotomay (opening of abscess with cutting instrument)
leechery (using leeches to cure)
lasque (flat thin diamond in Hindu décor)
catapasm (medicinal powder)
catrack (cataracts)
unguentary
ophthalmy
sursanure (wound healing outwardly only)
collodionize (treat with collodion)
nascal (pessary of medicated cotton)
injellied the medicament
GEMS / METALS
looking-glass
churi and chausari (glass bangles and necklace)
chaudaniya (pearl earrings)
bidry (ornamental metal-work)
kincob / kimkhwab (brocade)
tootnague (~ tin)
tomback
tincall (borax)
jarcoon (= zircon)
babagooree (white agate)
sheeny (bright)
colliquefaction (melting together)
chert
nacry (like nacre)
lycophthalmy (gem)
jargoon (zircon)
cawkey (a., min.)
sinoper
pyrope (garnet)
jaspachate (agate, jasper)
sardachate (gem)
sanidine (feldspar)
PERFUMES / SOAPS
ambar-batti (perfumed pastilles of frankincense)
SHOPS / BUSINESSES / TRADES
bahangi (parcel post)
avaro (Tahitian fruit --> blue dye)
Hingu gum from the Mongols
aroosha (fiber)
leaguer (liquid measurement vessel)
factor (factory worker)
Upparanu (caste who by trade are tank-diggers)
Ladaru (caste of Muslim traders and artificers)
Naindu (caste of barbers)
zinc smelter plant
Subji Mandi (a vegetable garden)
panch (the number 5)
granaries
indotype (a collotype)
where they chased salt
sapèque (cash, in Chinese trading)
miscall (an Arabian weight)
pecul (a weight)
maund (a weight)
lohar-mistri (blacksmith)
unguentary (a dealer in unguents)
ayah (maid)
viss (a weight = ~ 3 lbs.)
vendu-master (auctioneer)
tunnyketch (female water-carrier)
ticker (a contractor on the job)
tare (coin)
putnee (goods commissioned to order)
pone (= 80 cowries)
picar (intermediate broker)
Parvoe (writer-caste)
the Ovidore (auditor) presided over the public outcry (auction)
moochy (leather worker)
matranee (wife of a sweeper)
Karbaree (businessman, agent)
mauldar (manager)
godown (warehouse for goods)
dispensary
hoondy (bill of exchange)
shahajog (bill of exchange)
tripery (where T is sold)
where they lithed (softened) the skins of [animal]
chuckler (low-caste cobbler)
talbo-type (calotype)
rettery (where flax is retted)
packery (packing room)
jobber
chafery (iron furnace)
jute mill
New Dacca Jute Industries
tawery (a place where skins are tawed)
cheatery (practice of swindling)
cheapfare (haggling business in marketplace)
talary (tailoring)
patchery (where patching is done)
packery (packing establishment)
mercery (a mercer’s shop)
Indus Roadways Ltd
Thambuchetty Street
Chennai – 600001
Global Softline
16, Ramakrishna Iyer Street
West Tambaram
Chennai – 600045
Names:
Veer _______ (a Dutch-Indian half-breed)
Gordon Lightfoot
Goober
Skippy
Paum Dassory
Percy
Merchy
Perdy Dhir
Tamarindo
Binky
Soupy
Bussy
Chutter, their butler
Padre ________
Rao
Venky
Chimbley
Graham Crisp
Sinclair Kerr
Billy Budge-Budge
Cedric Kearney
Orlando
Chum Chundy
Nesmith Fitzmaurice, commander of a crack regiment
Lord Tute
Dabney Jegdissery
Charlie Parbutty
Benny Pillichody
Ohm Day Sisty
Jessey
Grace Elizabeth and John English
Willie Quick (sailor)
Barry
Morley Osmotherley
Colonel Mustard (the promotion he had long sought for came to pass, but not alas, to a higher military rank, but rather to a more pungent colonel – Colonel Horseradish)
Lord Reading, Viceroy of India
Ramsey
Roy / Leroy / Deroy / Neroy
Trevor
Rowan Dowell
Major Kidd
Dum-Dum
Fitzgavin
Pascale
Robin Puckering
Ridley Patching
Reginald Peeling
Dudley Palmrose
Lemon Carroll
Julius (British Jew)
Nolan
Djago (cock of the walk)
Béo Sù
Tjé
Tsey
Silacary
Télé
Tonimne
Sundur
Dao, Cao, Nao, Pao, Mao, Tao, Yao, Chao, Ao
PEOPLES
Indo-Briton
the begging Budu-Budu, Dasari
the Mhar (landless laborers)
the fisher Parawar
the Jut (tillers of soil, also tend to be martial and raise camels)
Wadawar (quarriers)
Uparawar (salt-makers)
the Kurg mountaineers
the homeless Lambari
the homeless Nat
Sarangdar (a clan)
Parasar (cast of Brahmans)
leptoprosope (person with long narrow face)
Feringhee (Westerners)
Pahari (native of hill country north of Punjab)
“those are the Mone” (Talaing peoples)
Racanners (lowly people near mouth of Ganges)
Topaz (“black mongrel Portuguese”)
Talaing (of Pegu)
Sooder (4th caste – artisans, laborers – no rights, only duties)
Cinghalese (Ceylon)
pye (pariah-dog – low class)
Mazhabis (~ Sikhs)
Mull (Anglo-Indian from Madras)
Duck (Anglo-Indian from Bombay)
Magaraby (Moors)
Macquars (W. coast divers)
MOLE-ISLAM -- a certain class of rustic Mahommedans in Guzerat, said to have been forcibly converted in the time of the famous Sultan Mahmūd Bigarra
Marwarry
Lip-Laps (disparaging, children born in India, even of Euro parents)
Lewchew (islanders S of Japan)
Lingadhari (Hindu sect)
step-goats, goats-in-law, goats twice removed...
tut-mouthed (w/ projecting lower jaw)
Africo (black slave)
black Jews (of S. India)
the Blanks (whites) (“The [Muslims] will slit the throats of any Blanks that venture through...”)
bandaree (low caste in Bombay)
chutkarry (half-caste)
cheechee (a., re accent of Euro-Indian half-breeds)
Cassay (eastern Burmese)
the Canareen (creole Portuguese)
Dhome (a low caste)
Deccany (Muslim from Decca)
Parangi (black Portuguese in southern India, despised by native Indians)
Fanqui (black Chinese descended from slaves purchased by China in 16th)
grass-widow (loose lady living apart from her husband)
Hollocore (low-caste scum who eats anything, to Muslims)
Hindustani (black or brown Muslims of India)
Lahorites
Hindoostani (a.)
Madecass (native of Madagascar)
Tururay (Malay people)
Malayalam (language spoken in W. islands)
Redjang tribe of Sumatra
Pahareen (Pahari woman, N. of Punjab)
Singhalese
panmictic (re random breeding in population)
Calaycay
Malagash (native of Madagascar)
Mahori (dark Polynesians)
Tungooses (Mongolian tribe)
Socotrine (a., re Socotra, island in IO; s., native of Socotra)
unicunde (a., alien)
Tiruray (Malay tribe)
tiersman (mountain man in Tasmania)
Tomoré (E. Celebes)
tambi (Indian)
Indo-Malayan
Australo-______
Méo
Malayopolynesian
Aino refugees from Japan
Ajami (non-Arabs, to the Arabs)
Oceanian
Macassar ( people of the Celebes)
peoples
Sré
Indo-_____
Collery (Indian people)
Sino-_______
Dân Ai-Lao (Laotians)
ELEPHANT
Hathi Kund (tank for elephants to drink, near Udaipur)
a team of elephants harnessed by yokes to extray (withdraw, extract) the timber
amaury (canopied seat on elephant)
howder (chair on elephant)
jhool (ornate cloth draped over back of elephant)
elephantry (elephant cavalry)
lusk (to idle)
a stampede through the Deodar Cedar forest
a fit of must (unusual anxiety, excitement)
gallivanting
rogue elephant (vagabond elephant)
nayar (elephant driver)
the _____ beat the elephant cow with a lattee (bludgeon)
jhool (quilt covering saddle)
Gujeputty (King of Orissa, “Lord of the Elephants”)
rhinoceros in the Sunderbunds
riding umstrid (astride) an elephant
perioplic (re: outer layer of hooves)
pexic (a., fixing in place)
chelidon (elbow)
occalated (calloused; hard)
occipitally (a.)
ocivity (laziness)
multungulate (a. re animal with more than 2 hooves)
cespitation / cespitancy (stumbling)
tusker (animal that has tusks)
pinguitude
unguicular
pannage (woodland grazing food for swine, including beechnuts)
their convellent trunks (tearing up, rooting up)
hamacratic (moving, working together)
occalated (calloused; hard)
elingued (dumb)
encuirassed
masticating black tea leaves
cabang (prong)
thoracolumbar junction
abated
sublux
gravigrade elephant
nooser (who nooses elephants)
the elephant’s tolutation (ambling, pacing)
the elephant’s tubulidenticle
loxodont (type of elephant)
