Indian gift
noun
A present given with the expectation of receiving an equivalent in return; (now chiefly) a present given and then demanded back.
- Now chiefly depreciative and often considered offensive..
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769), classical scholar.
- partnership desk
- partnership policing
- partners' pedestal desk
- partness
- partocracy
- partocrat
- partocratic
- part of speech
- part of the furniture
- partogram
- partogramm
- Parton, Dolly
- partook
- partouse
- partouze
- part-own
- part-owner
- part-ownership
- part pay
- part payment
- part playing
- part publication
- partridge
- partridgeberry
- partridge bird