budlee
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Hindustani बदली (badlī) / بَدلِی (badlī).
Noun
editbudlee (plural budlees)
- (India, obsolete) A substitute in public or domestic service.
- 1881, Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India: 1857-1858, page 631:
- […] he had thought it prudent to send a "budlee" to be shot in his place.
References
edit- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “budlee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].