baksheesh
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /bækˈʃiːʃ/
Noun

baksheesh (uncountable)

  1. (business, ethics) in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe#Noun|bribe or tip#Noun|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 […]
  2. (military slang) A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: bakchich
  • German: Bakschisch
  • Portuguese: baksheesh
  • Russian: бакши́ш
  • Spanish: baksheesh
Verb

baksheesh (baksheeshes, present participle baksheeshing; past and past participle baksheeshed)

  1. To bribe with a baksheesh.



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