Lexicographical Neighbors of Bukshis
Literary usage of Bukshis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta by Reginald Heber (1846)
"... and he and his fellow-servants should have the usual bukshis.li, but he answered
that neither he nor any of the raja's people, except the dancing-girls, ..."
2. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"A similar term we have in Boxing Day, at Christmas ; it is a corruption of bukshis,
or presents, a word well known from Cairo to Calcutta. ..."
3. Behramji M. Malabari; a Biographical Sketch by Dayaram Gidumal (1888)
"She was under a pledge to have some bukshis out of the curmudgeon. He held out
as long as he could under her ardent overtures; but when his fair tormentor ..."
4. A Voyage to Abyssinia: And Travels Into the Interior of that Country by Henry Salt (1816)
"... bukshis," meaning literally, " in the name of God, poor man, a present," an
appeal, which the wretchedness of their appearance rendered irresistible. ..."
5. Life of the Honourable Rajah, Sir Dinkar Rao: K.C.S.I., Musheer-i-khas by Mukund Wamanrao Burway (1907)
"The "bukshis" affair formed the subject of discussion one evening and Sir Dinkar
Rao expressed himself exactly in the same way in which Mr. George ..."
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