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

Associated with or special to India or Indian people, places, or things. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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drop packets n. Dropping packets: Talking dirty. [English India] [full cite] (Jul. 14, 2004)

encounter specialist n. The fabled and, sometimes notorious, sharpshooters of Mumbai Police—known in local parlance by their euphemism “encounter specialists”—are back in the news. [English India Police Euphemism] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2006)

euphemism n. Though the bill bans dancing, it doesn’t stop women from waiting at bars. But the waitresses will then become euphemisms for sex workers. [English India] [full cite] (Aug. 19, 2005)

eve-teasing n. “Eve-teasing,” a peculiarly Indian euphemism for lewd taunting, was one indignity visited on women on the streets. [English India] [full cite] (Apr. 25, 2005)

eve-teasing n. Police officials have been discovering that the collegiate enthusiasts who prowl streets in Indian cities are not content to watch the girls go by. Indian newspapers have carried accounts of police roundups in Srinagar, Dehra Dun and other centers for indecent advances at bus stands and traffic intersections.…Happy headline writers have dubbed the new offense “Eve-teasing.” [English India Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2005)

eve-teasing n. Goondaism refers to anti-social behavior of persons who generally indulge in violent and other “illegitimate means” to get things done.…While their student friends go to the classes, they sit in coffee houses or on lawns of the University and indulge in “eve-teasing.” [English India Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2005)

eve-teasing n. To snatch a girl’s dupatta is one of the forms of “eve-teasing” which occurs on many a school bus. [English India Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2005)

eve-teasing n. Buses in Delhi are notoriously the worst place for “Eve-teasing"—the Indian term which covers everything from sexual harassment, pestering, groping, whispered obscenities as well as light-hearted cat calls and equivalents of “hello darling.” [English India Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2005)

eve-teasing n. One aspect of the problem of student indiscipline which is plaguing university authorities in India has been the bullying and harassment of girl students in the few coeducational institutions—a pastime so common that it has been given the name of “Eve-teasing."…"Eve-teasing” is not, apparently, just the oafish high spirtis or illwill of a handful of male students but is rather a symptom of the strong resentment which many students feel against women in the universities. [English India Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2005)

eveninger n. Two vernacular eveningers in the form of broadsheet, Western Times and Aajkal are already existing in the Ahmedabad market and Aajkal reportedly has a wider circulation than Western Times. [English India Media] [full cite] (Feb. 24, 2005)

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