Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15769
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15769
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1613.—"The Captain Chinesa is fallen at square with his new wife and hath given her his wacadah bidding her cut off her little finger."—*Foster, Letters*, ii. 18.