bobachee Anglo-Ind.
(ˈbɒbədʒiː)
Also babachy, bobarchee, bobba-, bobberjee, etc.
[Corruption of Hindi bāwarchī.]
A male cook.
| 1810 T. Williamson E. Ind. Vade-Mecum I. 238 It being in the power of the babachy to baste any part with great precision. 1863 G. O. Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow 18 And every night and morning The Bobarchee he shall kill The sempiternal Moorghye, And we'll all have a grill. 1883 E. H. Aitken Tribes on Frontier 35 He was only a maistry, or more vulgarly a bobberjee. 1920 Outward Bound Nov. 67/1 Here, you, bobbajee, khansammeh, send up a sack of potatoes. 1958 Manch. Guardian 11 June 3/2 Sergeant Frederick McManus, who joined the army in 1937, said, ‘..I miss the cooks—bobajees we used to call them.’ |