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[[File:"Backsheesh!" (1879) - TIMEA.jpg|thumb|A drawing of a female [[beggar]] holding a large bowl, captioned “Backsheesh!”, from ''A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879'' (1886)<ref>{{cite-book|author=W[illiam] J[ohn] Loftie|authorlink=W. J. Loftie|title=A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present State and Ancient History of Nile Valley, and Some Account of the Various Ways of Making the Voyage Out and Home|location=London|publisher=[[w:Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan & Co.]]|year=1886|page=60|oclc=3644952}}.</ref>]] |
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# To bribe with a baksheesh. |
# To bribe with a baksheesh. |
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Revision as of 15:51, 3 March 2018
English
Alternative forms
- bachshish, backsheesh, backshish, backsishe, bacsheese (obsolete), bacshish, bakhshish, bakhshîsh, bucksheesh, buckshish, bukshish, buxees (archaic), buxie
Etymology
From Turkish bahşiş, from Persian بخشیش (bakhšīš, “present; an honorary or pecuniary gratuity; drink-money”) or بخشش (bakhšiš), from بخشیدن (bakhšīdan, “to give, grant, bestow”).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) IPA(key): /bækˈʃiːʃ/ - (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Hyphenation: bak‧sheesh
Noun
baksheesh (usually uncountable, plural baksheeshes)
- (business, ethics) in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.
- 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land: With Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as they Appeared to the Author: With Two Hundred and Thirty-four Illustrations, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], OCLC 197666920; republished San Francisco, Calif: H. H. Bancroft and Company; Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1869, OCLC 851260735, pages 504–505:
- As we rode into Magdala not a soul was visible. But the ring of the horses' hoofs roused the stupid population, and they all came trooping out—old men and old women, boys and girls, the blind, the crazy, and the crippled, all in ragged, soiled and scanty raiment, and all abject beggars by nature, instinct and education. […] [O]ut of their infidel throats, with one accord, burst an agonizing and most infernal chorus: "Howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! bucksheesh! bucksheesh!" I never was in a storm like that before. As we paid the bucksheesh out to sore-eyed children and brown, buxom girls with repulsively tattooed lips and chins, we filed through the town […]
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- 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land: With Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as they Appeared to the Author: With Two Hundred and Thirty-four Illustrations, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], OCLC 197666920; republished San Francisco, Calif: H. H. Bancroft and Company; Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1869, OCLC 851260735, pages 504–505:
Synonyms
Translations
bribe or tip
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Verb
baksheesh (third-person singular simple present baksheeshes, present participle baksheeshing, simple past and past participle baksheeshed)
- To bribe with a baksheesh.
Portuguese
Noun
baksheesh m (uncountable)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Turkish
- English terms derived from Persian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Business
- en:Ethics
- English verbs
- en:Money
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with K
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with rare senses