mahout
/məˈhaʊt
/noun
(In South and SE Asia) a person who works with and rides an elephant.Displaying their talents, these giants will perform shows such trunk painting and a mock elephant battle ridden by mahouts....
- Walking down memory lane, Dr Paramesh spoke of how the company's founder-father M Manal chanced upon a herb that mahouts used to calm elephants and began to experiment with its benefits for humans.
- He also won awards for Man and Elephant, the love story of a mahout and an elephant, which was been shown on 100 television channels internationally.
Origin
From Hindi mahāvat.
Rhymes
- Scotch douche
- scotched collops
- Scotch egg
- Scotch ell
- Scotch elm
- Scotchery
- Scotch fiddle
- Scotch fir
- Scotch Gael
- Scotch Gaelic
- Scotch gale
- Scotchgard
- Scotch glue
- Scotch goose
- Scotch hand
- Scotch hearth
- Scotch heath
- Scotch heather
- Scotchification
- Scotchified
- Scotchiness
- Scotch-Irish
- Scotch-Irishman
- Scotch kale
- Scotch laburnum