请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 bundobust
释义

bundobustbandobastn.

Brit. /ˈbʌndəbʌst/, U.S. /ˈbəndəˌbəst/
Forms: Also banda-, bando-, bunda-, bunder-, bundo-, bundoo-; -bast, -bust, -bustt.
Etymology: Hindi (Persian) band-o-bast tying and binding.
India.
An arrangement, organization; preparations.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > a) preparation(s)
preparationsc1390
preparativea1450
preparatory1577
preparado1610
bundobust1776
arrangement1786
build-up1927
warm-up1943
run-up1961
loosener1987
1776 Depositions 17/2 in Trial J. Fowke In the year 1180..when the Bundobustt of the farms took place.
1813 Gloss. 5th Rep. Sel. Comm. E. India Co. 10/1 Bundoobust... A settlement of the amount of revenue to be paid or collected.
1880 G. Aberigh-Mackay Twenty-one Days India 181 This unhappy creature whose mind is a perfect blank regarding Faujdari and Bandobast..will..actually presume to discuss Indian subjects with you.
1896 A. Forbes Camps, Quarters, & Casual Places 270 George Martell did not make quite so bad a bandobast after all.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 319/2 ‘Sahib, what bundobast fer dinner?’ asked Khuda Bux.
1925 B. Beetham in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 163 [We] set off with a minimum bandobast to penetrate as far down into Nepal as we could.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 327/2 An Indian regiment whose water bundobust had somehow gone wrong.
1963 M. Malim Pagoda Tree xxiii. 157 A great one for rushing about with a tremendous air of determination ‘making bundobusts’ right, left and centre.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1776
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 21:47:53