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▪ I. † bint, binte, n.1 Obs.
(Meaning and derivation doubtful: cf. Du. bindte ‘joint, crossbeam.’)
1629S'hertogenbosh 21 The French were..very busie, making that night three bints of their Gallery neere the great Sconce. Ibid. 28 The ninth binte of the other Gallery on the South side of the said Bulwarke.
▪ II. bint, n.2 colloq.|bɪnt|
[Arab. bint daughter.]
A girl or woman (usu. derog.); girl-friend.
The term was in common use by British servicemen in Egypt and neighbouring countries in the wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45.
1855R. F. Burton Pers. Narr. Pilgrimage to Meccah I. v. 121 ‘Allah! upon Allah! O daughter!’ cry the by-standers, when the obstinate ‘bint’ of sixty years seizes their hands. 1888C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. viii. 231 Hirfa sighed for motherhood: she had been these two years with an husband and was yet bint, as the nomads say, ‘in her girlhood’. Ibid. xiii. 374 The homesick Beduin bint. 1919Athenæum 25 July 664/2 Bint, girl. 1930E. Raymond Jesting Army i. ii. 24 Damned jolly little bint, that one, too! 1938‘R. Hyde’ Godwits Fly xi. 169 Fancy turning in a smoke for a bint. 1941New Statesman 30 Aug. (list of war slang) Bint—Girl friend. 1942N. Streatfeild Table for Six 151 I'd like her to grow up a lush bint. 1946Penguin New Writing XXVIII. 175 What are the bints like round here, Tom? 1958K. Amis I like it Here xiii. 162 As the R.A.F. friend would have put it, you could never tell with these foreign bints. |