juwaub
English
editEtymology
editHindi [Term?] (“an answer”)
Noun
editjuwaub (plural juwaubs)
- (India, dated, British military slang) A formal refusal.
- 1836, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia, page 97:
- These offices are often to be filled up, their untiring perseverance occasioning the secession of a member, who, after having sustained repeated juwaubs, is accepted at last, […]
Verb
editjuwaub (third-person singular simple present juwaubs, present participle juwaubing, simple past and past participle juwaubed)