kutcherin.

Brit.

/kəˈtʃɛri/,

/ˈkʌtʃəri/, U.S.

/kəˈtʃɛri/,

/ˈkətʃəri/, Indian English /kəˈtʃeːri/

Forms: Also 1600s cichery, queshery, 1700s cutcheree, cutcherie, kuchurry, 1700s–1800s cutcherry, kutcherry, 1800s cutchery, kutcheri, kucheree, 1900s kach(ch)eri.

Etymology: < Hindi kachahri, kachērī, hall or chamber of audience, hence, court for administration of business, office, town-house. The first pronunciation above is used in Northern India, the second in the South.

Anglo-Indian.

1. An office of administration, a courthouse. Also the business office of an indigo-planter, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > office > [noun]

counterc1386

officec1405

counting-house?1608

kutcheri1610

bureau1702

counting-room1712

dufter1791

cabin1979

1610 Hawkins in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 439 The Cichery or Court of Rolls, where the King's Viseer sits every morning some three houres.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 261 The Royal Exchange, or Queshery.

1764 Verelst tr. in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 266 The great Cutcherry there, with brick walls.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. i. 9 The [broker]..fixes upon a habitation, which he calls his cutchery.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 517 The prodigious labours of cutcherry.

1903 Oxf. Mag. 11 Feb. 208/1 The Kachcheri..is the centre of official life in the province.

1926 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. Sept. 391/2 I can't have the Kacheri turned into a pawnshop.

attributive.1771 Gentleman's Mag. 41 403 We had 100 people employed upon the Cutcherry List.1913 L. Woolf Village in Jungle vii. 179 He was standing..frightened, on the Kachcheri verandah.

†2. A division or brigade of infantry. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1799 G. Harris in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 119 A cutcherie or Brigade of Infantry was pushed forward.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2022).

单词	kutcheri
释义	kutcherin. Brit. /kəˈtʃɛri/, /ˈkʌtʃəri/, U.S. /kəˈtʃɛri/, /ˈkətʃəri/, Indian English /kəˈtʃeːri/ Forms: Also 1600s cichery, queshery, 1700s cutcheree, cutcherie, kuchurry, 1700s–1800s cutcherry, kutcherry, 1800s cutchery, kutcheri, kucheree, 1900s kach(ch)eri. Etymology: < Hindi kachahri, kachērī, hall or chamber of audience, hence, court for administration of business, office, town-house. The first pronunciation above is used in Northern India, the second in the South. Anglo-Indian. 1. An office of administration, a courthouse. Also the business office of an indigo-planter, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > office > [noun] counterc1386 officec1405 counting-house?1608 kutcheri1610 bureau1702 counting-room1712 dufter1791 cabin1979 1610 Hawkins in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 439 The Cichery or Court of Rolls, where the King's Viseer sits every morning some three houres. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 261 The Royal Exchange, or Queshery. 1764 Verelst tr. in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 266 The great Cutcherry there, with brick walls. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. i. 9 The [broker]..fixes upon a habitation, which he calls his cutchery. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 517 The prodigious labours of cutcherry. 1903 Oxf. Mag. 11 Feb. 208/1 The Kachcheri..is the centre of official life in the province. 1926 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. Sept. 391/2 I can't have the Kacheri turned into a pawnshop. attributive.1771 Gentleman's Mag. 41 403 We had 100 people employed upon the Cutcherry List.1913 L. Woolf Village in Jungle vii. 179 He was standing..frightened, on the Kachcheri verandah. †2. A division or brigade of infantry. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1799 G. Harris in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 119 A cutcherie or Brigade of Infantry was pushed forward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2022). < n.1610
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