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Wallah

noun
(Written also walla)
1.
Usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing.  "The book wallah"





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"Wallah" Quotes from Famous Books



... like the Burra Malum. He sleeps below while the work is being done. Then he comes upon the quarter-deck and touches with his finger and says: 'This is not clean! Jiboon-wallah!'" ...
— Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II • Rudyard Kipling
... the whitewashed houses of the English merchants, their oyster-shell windows already lit up; and in some forty-five minutes entered a long avenue leading to Mr. Bourchier's country house. Twice during the course of the journey Desmond was interested to see the shigramwallah {wallah is a personal affix, denoting a close connection between the person and the thing described by the main word. Shigramwallah thus is carriage driver} pull his team up, dismount, and, going to their heads, insert his hand ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang


Words linked to "Wallah" :   Bharat, India, worker, Republic of India


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