Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15832
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15832
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c10.15832
*Woon-douk*, i.e. *Wun-dauk*, lit. ‘the prop of the *Wun*’; a sort of Adlatus, or Minister of an inferior class. We have recently seen a Burmese envoy to the French Government designated as “M. Woondouk.”