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

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bulb v. “Bulb” is a word that is often used in IITian slang.…I could not come up with a word to say what the word meant. To say it my way—I was bulbing about the meaning of the word bulb.…In some contexts this word may mean—getting confused, not to get something that is trivial…but can’t there be a word that can describe the meaning of “bulb.”!!! [English India] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2005)

bulb v. The only thing of note that was held on a large scale that i can remember from last sem was shaastra but it too was too high funda for poor guys like me—i was bulbing at every possible event i tried to take part in(ok ok, i dont mean to say that i did manage to do something significant at saarang). [India] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2005)

bulb v. So basically da machi, you stop bulbing when some arbit dude puts some fart about some x putting some nth order hajaar fight to argee some y in acads ra. [English India] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2005)

call centre couple n. For instance, the Indian consumer is changing very rapidly. We are seeing the emergence of what I call “call centre couples”—young, college-educated, stressed people. They don’t want their parents living with them, they don’t want to shop at the kirana stores, they speak English all the time… This is a very different middle class from what existed earlier. [English India Relationships New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jun. 11, 2007)

canteen honours n.pl. Shyam Benegal’s Bose: The Forgotten Hero makes me wish I had attended some classes, instead of doing what, in Presidency College Calcutta parlance, was called “canteen honours.” [English India Education] [full cite] (May. 15, 2005)

chamcha n. All three have pulled strings in their respective parties to get Assembly poll tickets for their puppets and close confidants, better known in political parlance as chamchas. [India Politics] [full cite] (Sep. 21, 2004)

chamcha n. Akbar has been called a chamcha (which means spoon in the Hindi language and has become a slang word for sycophant) to the Gandhi family, and some of that slavish devotion shows up in his uncritical acceptance of Nehru’s government-dominated economic program and the erosion of the country’s grass roots political structure as a result of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. [English Hindi India Politics] [full cite] (Sep. 23, 2004)

chamcha n. I have my own standing in the party. I cannot be anybody’s chamcha (stooge). [English Hindi India Politics] [full cite] (Sep. 23, 2004)

chamcha n. No doubt, the British also had their sycophants—toadys, bachhas, jholichuks and hukkabardars—but chamchas of the modern vintage they had none. Chamchas are a breed apart. A chamcha, verily is more than a favourite. He is a catalytic agent to activate the Sahib’s ego and cloud and obfuscate his thinking. [English Hindi India Politics] [full cite] (Sep. 23, 2004)

chamcha n. Chamcha: A Person who uses lot of “Maska” to promote his self interest. The villan in old kannada movies, nowadays potrayed as a statesman. [India] [full cite] (Oct. 2, 2004)

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