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
"Call the servants and carry him into the bungalow where the baboo is; then go at once down to the police and tell who killed this man," Swinton commanded.
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
The barber, to soothe the fever-demented one, said: "Of a surety, baboo, your wife has taken the jewel because it was an evil stone that but increased the fever that was in your blood."
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
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
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
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
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