- a variation of babu.
baboo
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baboos
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Yeesh, it's like the producers are out to get my sweet baboo.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2010
In the main, German Composer Kurt Weill has a baboo approach to U. S. musical idiom, e.g.,
From Time Magazine Archive
The baboo bustles about, and makes vacant for us two sofas, the places of honor.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various
"Wah, Tulsi Ram!" exclaimed the Thanadar, "thou shalt yet become a baboo in the post-office at Naini Tal."
From The Taming of the Jungle by Dr. C. W. Doyle
The little book which I am quoting from is called "Indo-Anglian Literature," and is well stocked with "baboo" English—clerkly English, hooky English, acquired in the schools.
From Following the Equator, Part 7 by Mark Twain
Karlee had not served the Sahibs, and observed "Young Bengal" baboos, in vain.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
There are wealthy proprietors, rajahs, baboos, and so on, who hold vast tracts of land, either by grant, or purchase, or hereditary succession; but the tenants are literally the children of the soil.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by James Inglis
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