- a variation of babu.
baboo
Americannoun
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baboos
plural
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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
Balwant Singh came back with the baboo when he had delivered this message.
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
Looked at from this point of view, the baboo is not such an insignificant being as he appears to be considered.'
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
His head baboo begged me to come over and take charge, if only to reassure the coolies, who had been running off into the jungle on the report of a threatened Naga raid.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson
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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