Binky Nabob
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Kannada [Term?] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Hobson-Jobson: "It is properly benkī-nawāb, from Canarese benkī, 'fire'."”)
Proper noun[edit]
the Binky Nabob
- (India, historical, obsolete) The commandant of the artillery.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “Binky Nabob”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].