| 单词 | babu clerk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbabu clerk C1. General attributive, frequently in babu clerk. ΚΠ 1879 Standard 24 Mar. 2/1 Our postmaster..has not a Baboo clerk, nor even a table, much less pillar-boxes, ledgers, and office tent. 1880 Colburn's United Service Mag. Feb. 157 That extraordinary creation of ours, the Bengal Baboo clerk, a creature without manliness, and whose sole idea is to create official correspondence. 1925 Weekly Westminster 4 July 258 They irritate by their rather Babu familiarity with West End place-names. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 174/3 Robin's babu clerk. 1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend iv. 105 I had never had a shorthand typist, and though the babu clerk was good up to a point, the correspondence was always on top of us. 2000 R. Antoni in N. Hopkinson Whispers from Cotton Tree Root 217 The King had some little baboo-boys there dressed only in what looked to me like diapers. < as lemmas |
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