chota, a. India.
(ˈtʃəʊtə)
[Hindi choṭa.]
Small; younger, junior; spec. applied to a ‘peg’ of whisky.
| c 1815 M. M. Sherwood Little Henry & his Bearer (ed. 7, 1816) 10 Boosy never left his choota sahib. 1853 Mrs. Colin Mackenzie Life in the Mission viii. 351 A horseman..asked for William as the ‘Chota Padre’. 1886 Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 44 Dysent'ry touched him in June, after the Chota Bursat. 1893 ― Day's Work (1898) 8, I tell this to the Chota Sahib. 1915 Blackw. Mag. Dec. 817/1, I was sipping a ‘chota’ whiskey. 1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 603/1 He..waited till the chota pegs had been served. |