India Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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vernac adj. There is the image, that to be successful, you have to speak English, wear a certain kind of clothes, frequent certain kind of places.” Says 14-year-old Rachna: “I can’t think of mixing with the vernac types. What do we talk about. And how?” [English India] [full cite] (May. 18, 2005)

vernac adj. “They wanted a famous name from Mumbai to put on the marquee. I even organised that,” she said, “I got them a star performer, but they didn’t like him, said he was too vernac.” “Meaning what?” “Meaning he did serious theatre and gave interviews in Hindi and Marathi. They dumped him, and got me someone else instead.” [English India] [full cite] (May. 18, 2005)

wet adj. As water resources minister, Mr Munshi had been burdened with a lightweight ministry, one which is not quite as “wet” as the name may suggest (in Delhi parlance, a “wet” ministry is one where the minister has enormous financial resources at his command). [English India Politics] [full cite] (Mar. 17, 2005)

white wash n. And therefore, you have to do a very detailed exercise and then do what is called white wash procedure. Under the white wash procedure, the directors of the company and have to make a statuary declaration that immediately after the financial assistance is provided and 12 months thereafter, the company will be able to pay all its obligations as well as will be able to pay as and when they fall due. This is a very serious statuary declaration because if for any reason it doesn’t work out then there is a criminal liability for all the directors. [English India Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Sep. 17, 2007)

yawncounter n. His subordinates happen to be a trigger-happy yawncounter specialist (Suniel Shetty often mumbling a dialect that needs subtitles), an overaged dialogue baazigar (Shatrughan Sinha, yelling his trademark “Khamosh!” just in case you’ve forgotten). [English India] [full cite] (Jun. 5, 2004)

yettie n. Yetties are the corporate version of yuppies—young entrepreneurial, tech-based, 20-somethings who’re usually followers of tech so advanced that they have no practical purpose. [English India] [full cite] (Jul. 14, 2004)

zorro n. During the entire operation, Army used at least 10 masked men commonly known as zorros to identify underground cadres. [ Language English Place India] [full cite] (Oct. 31, 2005)

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