baboo

English edit

baboo (plural baboos)

Dated form of babu.
- 1835 February, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 104:
  An embezzlement of government money to the extent of about Rs. 2,000 was discovered some time ago in the post-office here, between the baboo, mutsuddy and mohurrer.
- 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 […]