duggie

English

Etymology

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Particularly: “Hobson-Jobson says: Sir A. Phayre believes the word to be a corruption of the Burmese htāp-gy̆ī. The first syllable means the 'cross-beam of a house,' the second, 'big'; hence 'big-beam.'”

Noun

duggie (plural duggies)

(India, archaic) A long squared timber of irregular breadth and thickness.

References

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “duggie”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 330.