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baboo
English
Noun
baboo (plural baboos)
- Dated form of babu.
- 1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India (page 219)
- […] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]
- 1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India (page 219)
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bamboo
English
Alternative forms
- bambu (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ???? (bambu). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæm?bu/
Noun
bamboo (countable and uncountable, plural bamboos)
- A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
- (uncountable) The wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
- (countable) A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used for corporal punishment.
- (slang) A didgeridoo.
- (slang) A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Albanian: bambu
- ? Finnish: bambu
- ? Greek: ??????? (bampoú)
- ? Guugu Yimidhirr: bambu
- ? Russian: ??????? (bambúk) (or Dutch bamboe or French bambou) (see there for further descendants)
- ? Welsh: bamb?
Translations
Adjective
bamboo (not comparable)
- Made of the wood of the bamboo.
Translations
Verb
bamboo (third-person singular simple present bamboos, present participle bambooing, simple past and past participle bambooed)
- (transitive) To flog with a bamboo cane.
- 1880, Herbert Giles (translator), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., Vol. II, p. 18, footnote, [1]
- […] the beadle is punished by fine, and sometimes bambooed, if robberies are too frequent within his jurisdiction, or if he fails to secure the person of any malefactor particularly wanted by his superior officers.
- 1880, Herbert Giles (translator), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., Vol. II, p. 18, footnote, [1]
- (transitive) To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
- 1994, Penny Swift, The Complete Book of Paint Techniques, New Holland, p. 67, [2]
- The craze for bambooing furniture and accessories was one of many popular paint techniques in the 18th century and early Victorian era.
- 1994, Penny Swift, The Complete Book of Paint Techniques, New Holland, p. 67, [2]
- (India, slang) To penetrate sexually.
- 2006, Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games, Penguin, 2008, [3]
- If you're just a girl from Lucknow, with no fluid cash, you'll be just one more among thousands going from producer to producer by auto-rickshaw, and every photographer who agrees to take a picture for your portfolio will want to introduce you to his bed upstairs in the loft. And what you'll get out of all this in the end is a lot of bambooing and maybe a dance or two in his videos.
- 2013, Nandini Bhattacharya, Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject, London: Routledge, Chapter 5, [4]
- One scene of attachment and intimacy shows Vijay careening into their shared apartment dead drunk and insulting a praying Ajay for his devotion to the household god, Hanuman […] , saying that instead of being rescued Ajay will be "bamboo-ed," a popular slang for anal penetration.
- 2006, Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games, Penguin, 2008, [3]
Gooniyandi
Noun
bamboo
- didgeridoo
Mandinka
Noun
bamboo
- crocodile
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