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

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cow-dust hour n. It was the Indian “cow-dust hour"—an hour fit for reverie, all the more for Colonel X, because he was due to return to England within the month. [English India] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)

cow-dust time n. The late afternoon/ early evening, when the cows are led home from their pastures, is called “go-dhUli-kAla” (cow-dust time), for the many herds of cows all moving at once stir up quite a bit of dust. [English India] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)

cowdust hour n. Far away a faint roar signaled the mounting confusion of Delhi’s rush hour—the “cowdust hour” with its pungent odor of thousands of fires kindled in preparation for the evening meal. [English India] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)

cowdust time n. By “cowdust time,” the evocative Indian term for dusk, we are still 30 miles from our village. After asking the way a dozen times (Indians tend to be relaxed about the subtle difference between “left"and “right"), eventually we find it but, in the darkness, it looks like no Indian village we have ever seen. [English India] [full cite] (May. 6, 2006)

cowdust time n. In the evening at “cowdust time” the cattle are driven home. [English India] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)

creamy layer n. Though the Moily Oversight Committee on OBC reservations appears to be split on the issue of what to do with the “creamy layer,” or the well-to-do amongst the OBCs, the government is likely to stick to its decision to allow the “creamy layer” OBCs to avail themselves of reservations as well. The reason is simple. If the creamy layer, defined as those families earning more than Rs 2.5 lakh a year today, who form the top tenth of the country’s population, is not to be allowed to get OBC reservations, the OBC quotas could remain largely unfilled! [English India Money & Finance] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2006)

creamy layer n. The court said the “creamy layer” of the affluent among lower castes should not benefit from reservations but rejected the economic criterion in blocking the 10 percent quota Rao had set apart for the poor among upper castes. [English India Money & Finance] [full cite] (Sep. 5, 2006)

creamy layer n. Though the benefits have never been so freely accessible to all “SCs” as some in India often imagine, neither are they so confined to “a creamy layer” already risen to the top from amongst the Scheduled Caste mass, as radical critics of the system content. [English India] [full cite] (Sep. 5, 2006)

Didi n. Most Indians, for example, do not call their elder sisters by name but as “Didi” or an equivalent term (just like how one does not normally call one’s parents by name, but “Mother” or “Father.") [India] [full cite] (May. 14, 2004)

doosra n. Perth-based biomechanics experts subsequently tested him and initially found he straightened his bent arm by 14 percent in bowling a delivery tagged the “doosra.” The doosra is a delivery which spins away from right-handers instead of coming into them like a normal off-break. [Hindi Urdu India Pakistan] [full cite] (May. 17, 2004)

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