gutka

English

Alternative forms

• gutkha

Noun

gutka (uncountable)

1. 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.’