cherry-merry-bamboo

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See cherry-merry.

Noun[edit]

cherry-merry-bamboo (uncountable)

  1. (Anglo-Indian, obsolete) A beating with a bamboo stick.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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