Definitions for bashi-bazouk

bashi-bazouk bash·i-ba·zouk

Spelling: [bash-ee-buh-zook]
IPA: /ˌbæʃ i bəˈzuk/

Bashi-Bazouk is a 12 letter English word.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in bashi-bazouk (-aabbhikosuz).

Definitions for bashi-bazouk

noun

  1. (formerly) one of a class of irregular mounted troops in the Turkish military service.

Origin of bashi-bazouk

First recorded in 1850-55, bashi-bazouk is from the Turkish word başι-bozuk civilian, irregular, orig., leaderless, not attached (to a regular military unit), literally, (one) whose head (is)

Examples for bashi-bazouk

When we clattered into the cobbled street, we found a solitary bashi-bazouk armed with a Winchester repeating rifle.

There is something about him as exotic as a samovar, as essentially un-American as a bashi-bazouk, a nose-ring or a fugue.

As I looked six spearmen started out and spurred full speed at our bashi-bazouk, who was some two hundred yards behind us.

Even a bashi-bazouk must have quailed before that amazing declaration and that patient resignation to fate.

But may I ask what all this means, and why you were hiding behind my curtains as though you were a burglar or a bashi-bazouk?

I get twenty doldars for a real odalisk and fifteen for a bashi-bazouk.

The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of bashi-bazouk like silk.

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