Definitions for baboo

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baboo ba·boo

Spelling: [bah-boo]

IPA: /ˈbɑ bu/

Baboo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in baboo (abboo).

Definitions for baboo

noun

1. babu.
2. a Hindu title of address equivalent to Sir, Mr., or Esquire.
3. a Hindu gentleman.
4. a native Indian clerk who can write English.
5. Usually Disparaging. any native Indian having only a limited knowledge of English.

Origin of baboo

First recorded in 1875-80, babu is from the Hindi word bābū

Examples for baboo

One of them, a baboo, was sent back to Bombay by an early steamer.

The difference between the baboo and the African is very striking.

baboo shrugged his brown shoulders and kept his eyes on my feet.

Only the baboo, his two captors, and the boy with the clothes remained.

Of course baboo went, much to the disgust of Aboo Din, the syce.

I interrupted her; and worse, she took me for a champion of the baboo!

The baboo produced a piece of paper, over which they bent their heads.

Oxford man tells me in a whisper that "he believes he's a baboo."

It was useless to whip him, for whippings seemed only to make baboo grow.

The baboo entered, limp and crestfallen, in charge of two stablemen.