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bahadur Anglo-Ind.|bəˈhɔːdʊ(r)|
Also 8, 9 behauder, baha(u)door, bahawder.
[Hindi bahādur hero, champion.]
A great man, distinguished personage. Often affixed as a title to an officer's name.
‘Bahādur and Sirdār Bahādur are also the official titles of members of the 2nd and 1st classes respectively of the Order of British India, established for native officers of the army in 1837’ (Yule).
1776Trial of J. Fowke, F. Fowke, etc. 1/1 Joseph Fowke of Calcutta, Gentleman,..Maha Rajah Nundocomar, Bahader, late of the same place inhabitant. 1781J. Lindsay in A. W. C. Lindsay Lives (1849) III. 296 Sheikh Hussein..tells me that our army has beat the Behauder [sc. Hyder Ali]. 1841Thackeray Major Gahagan iv. in Comic Tales & Sk. II. 80 The lips of the Bahawder are closed. Ibid., Bobbachy Bahawder has seen the dreadful Feringhee. 1848‘J. Kirkland’ Eerie Laird x. 110 While he, a man of genius, must be content with the empty title of Bahadur (or knight). 1879in T. H. S. Escott Pillars Emp. 275 There is nothing of the great bahawder about him; he is easy of access, civil, and obliging to all who approach him. 1922Blackw. Mag. Oct. 519/2 He was a Bahadur, which is Indian for ‘hell of a fellow’. 1957P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble iii. 48, I fancied myself one of..Tamerlaine's bahadurs.
Hence bahadur v. intr., to play the bahadur.
1860W. H. Russell Diary India I. 272 They had been curvetting, prancing, and bahadooring with their swords in the air. |