baboo
Americannoun
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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
But Captain Swinton declared earnestly: "If you do, baboo, I will place your name in my book as an authority."
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
Balwant Singh came back with the baboo when he had delivered this message.
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
"I think you had better go away, baboo; Darpore is not a healthy place for men who cross our gentle friend up on the hill."
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
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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