gutka
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- A preparation of crushed areca nut, tobacco, catechu, paraffin, slaked lime and sweet or savoury flavourings, chewed recreationally in India.
- 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 6:
- ‘It's the sight of melting flesh that is revolting,’ he says in Hindi. ‘That is why most Dom men drink alcohol or chew gutka.’