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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of backsheesh.

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Examples

  • These advances are met on my part by broad intimations that if they continue to act as ridiculously during the remainder of the journey as they have to-day they will surely get well bastinadoed, instead of backsheeshed, when we reach Ghalakua.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

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