budlee

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindustani बदली (badlī) / بَدلِی (badlī).

Noun

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budlee (plural budlees)

  1. (India, obsolete) A substitute in public or domestic service.
    • 1881, Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India: 1857-1858, page 631:
      [] he had thought it prudent to send a "budlee" to be shot in his place.

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