‖ bundobust, bandobast India.
(ˈbʌndəbʌst)
Also banda-, bando-, bunda-, bunder-, bundo-, bundoo-; -bast, -bust, -bustt.
[Hind. (Pers.) band-o-bast tying and binding.]
An arrangement, organization; preparations.
| 1776 Trial Jos. Fowke, Depositions 17/2 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 Blackw. Mag. Sept. 319/2 ‘Sahib, what bundobast fer dinner?’ asked Khuda Bux. 1925 E. F. Norton Fight for Everest 1924 163 [We] set off with a minimum bandobast to penetrate as far down into Nepal as we could. 1927 Blackw. 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. |