Search for term dub throughout dictionary
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1) BUTLER
(p. 133) ...a Gentleman's House, he must understand Hairdressing." — India Gazette, March 2. 1789. — "No person considers himself as comfortably accommodated without entertaining a Dubash at 4 pagodas per month, a Butler at 3, a Peon at 2, a Cook at 3, a Compradore at 2, and kitchen boy at 1 pagoda." — Munro...
2) CHILLUM
(p. 195) ...Hence actual contact with glowing charcoal is needed to keep it alight. 1781. — "Dressing a hubble-bubble, per week at 3 chillums a day. fan 0, dubs 3, cash 0." — Prison Experiences in Captivity of Hon. J. Lindsay, in Lives...
3) CHOKRA
(p. 205) ...India is with the latter. (See CHUCKAROO.) [1875. — "He was dubbed 'the chokra, or simply 'boy.'" — Wilson, Abode of Snow, 136.]
4) CHOW-CHOW
(p. 213) ...There it seems to mean 'a medley of trifles.' Chow is in 'pigeon' applied to food of any kind. ["From the erroneous impression that dogs form one of the principal items of a Chinaman's diet, the common variety has been dubbed the 'chow dog'" (Ball, Things Chinese, p. 179).] We find the word chowchow in...
5) COCO, COCOA, COCOA-NUT, COKER-NUT
(p. 229) ...Turcis Cock-Indi eadem significatione, unde sine dubio Ӕtiopes, Africani, eorumque vicini Hispani ac Portugalli coquo deflexerunt. Omnia vero ista nomina, originem suam debent Hebraicae voci Egoz quae nucem significat." — Herb. Amboin. i. p. 7. " ". . . in India Occidentali Kokernoot vocatus. . . ." — Ibid. p. 47. class='special...
6) CONICOPOLY
(p. 247) ...He keeps your accounts, pays the rest of the servants their wages, and assists the Dubash in buying and selling. At Bengal he is called secretary. . . ." — Ives, 49.]
7) CUMBLY, CUMLY, CUMMUL
(p. 279) ...4 fanams, 6 dubs, 0 cash." — Prison Expenses of Hon. J. Lindsay, Lives of Lindsays, iii. 1798. — ". . . a large black Kummul, or blanket." — G. Forster, Travels, i. 194. 1800. — "One of the old gentlemen, observing that I looked very hard at his...
8) DOME, DHOME
(p. 322) ...The most dissolute body is that of the Dumbars or Dumbaru." — Abbé Dubois, 468.
9) DOOB
(p. 323) ...H. dūb, from Skt. dūrvā. A very nutritious creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon, Pers.), spread very generally in India. In the hot weather of Upper India, when its growth is scanty, it is eagerly sought for horses by the 'grass-cutters.' The natives, according to Roxburgh, quoted by Drury, cut the young leaves and make a cooling drink from...
10) DOOPUTTY
(p. 324) ...India by native servants, when speaking their own language, to European bed-sheets. [1615. — ". . . dubeties gouzerams." — Foster, Letters, iii. 156.]
11) DUB
(p. 328) DUB, s. Telugu dabbu, Tam. idappu; a small copper coin, the same as the doody (see CASH), value 20 cash; whence it comes to stand for money in general. It is curious that we have also an English provincial word, "Dubs= money, E. Sussex...
12) DUBASH, DOBASH, DEBASH
(p. 328) DUBASH, DOBASH, DEBASH, s. H. dubhāshiyā, dobāshī (lit. 'man of two languages'), Tam. tupāshi. An interpreter; obsolete except at Madras, and perhaps there also now, at least in its original sense; [now it is applied to a dressing-boy or other servant with a European.] The Dubash was at Madras formerly a usual...
13) DUBBEER
(p. 328) DUBBEER, s. P. — H. dabīr, 'a writer or secretary.' It occurs in Pehlevi as debīr, connected with the old Pers. dipi, 'writing.' The word is quite obsolete in Indian use. 1760. — "The King . . . referred the adjustment to his Dubbeer, or minister, which, amongst the Indians, is equivalent to...
14) DUBBER
(p. 329) DUBBER, s. Hind. (from Pers.) dabbah; also, according to Wilson, Guzerāti dabaro; Mahr. dabara. A large oval vessel, made of green buffalohide, which, after drying and stiffening, is used for holding and transporting ghee or oil. The word is used in North and South alike. 1554. — "Butter (
15) FANÁM
(p. 349) ...are worth fanões 10."— Barbosa (Lisbon ed.), 384. 1553. — "In the ceremony of dubbing a knight he is to go with all his kinsfolk and friends, in pomp and festal procession, to the House of the King . . . and make him an offering of 60 of those pleces of gold which they call Fanões
16) GUINEA-WORM
(p. 402) ...worms (δρακόντια μικρὰ) eat through the legs and arms, and peep out, but when touched instantly shrink back again, and winding among the muscles produce intolerable burning pains." — In Dubner's ed. of Plutarch, iv. 872, viz. Table Discussions, Bk. VIII. Quest. ix. 3. 1600. — "The wormes in the legges and bodies trouble...
17) GUNNY, GUNNY-BAG
(p. 403) ...1744]. 1764. — "Baskets, Gunny bags, and dubbers . . . Rs. 24." — In Long, 384. 1785. — "We enclose two parwanehs . . . directing them each to despatch 1000 goonies of grain to that person of mighty degree."— Tippoo's Letters, 171. 1885...
18) LOOT
(p. 520) ...Invidiam tantum non culpam usus publicus detrahit, dum vix dubitatur fieri non malè quod impunè fit. Ubique, semper, rapitur, congeritur, aufertur. Semel captum nunquam redditur. Quis enumeret artes et nomina, praedarum? Equidem mirari satis nequeo, quot, praeter usitatos modos, insolitis flexionibus inauspicatum illud rapiendi verbum quaedam avaritiae barbaria conjuget!" — Epistolae, Prague, 1667, Lib. V. Ep. vii. class='special...
19) MAISTRY, MISTRY
(p. 539) ...I have not yet been able to remedy the mischief done in my absence, as we have the advantage here of the assistance of some Madras dubashes and maistries" (ironical). — Wellington, i. 67. 1883. — ". . . My mind goes back to my ancient Goanese cook. He was only a maistry, or more vulgarly...
20) PARIAH, PARRIAR
(p. 680) ...1805-6. — "The Dubashes, then all powerful at Madras, threatened loss of cast and absolute destruction to any Brahmin who should dare to unveil the mysteries of their language to a Pariar Frengi. This reproach of Pariar is what we have tamely and strangely submitted to for a long time, when we might with a great facility have...
21) POLO
(p. 720) ...It was first played in England, it would seem at Aldershot, in July 1871, and in August of the same year at Dublin in the Phœnix Park. The next year it was played in many places. * But the first mention we can find in the Times is a notice of a match at Lillie-Bridge, July 11, 1874...
22) RESHIRE
(p. 760) ...26. 1554. — "Reyxel." See under DUBBER, as above. 1600. — "Reformados y proueydos en Harmuz de lo necessario, nos tornamos a partir . . . fuymos esta vez por fuera de la isla Queixiome (see KISHM) corriendo la misma costa, como de la primera, passamos . . . mas...
23) RUM
(p. 773) ...A MS. 'Description of Barbados,' in Trinity College, Dublin, written about 1651, says: 'The chief fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias KillDivil, and this is made of sugar-canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor.' G. Warren's Description of Surinam, 1661, shows the word in its present short term: 'Rum is...
24) TOPAZ, TOPASS
(p. 934) ...The same Fra Paolino, with his usual fertility in error, propounds in another passage that topaz is a corruption of do-bhāshiya, 'two-tongued' (in fact is another form of Dubash, q.v.), viz. using Portuguese and a debased vernacular (pp. 50 and 144). [The Madras Gloss. assumes Mal. tópáshi to be a corruption...