"babuism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 60",
          "text": "They altered the idiom, but they could say whatever they wanted to say quickly; there were none of the babuisms ascribed to them up at the Club.",
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          "ref": "1972, Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Language in thought and action, page 239",
          "text": "Abandoning its original application, then, let us use \"babu English,\" or \"babuism,\" as a general term to mean discourse in which the speaker (or writer) throws around learned words he does not understand in order to create a favorable impression. Babuism probably has existed and will continue to exist in every culture in which there is a learned class of magicians, shamans, priests, teachers, and other professional verbalizers with big vocabularies.",
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          "text": "This book, written 'with love' and based on Goffin's considerable experience as manager of first the Bombay Branch and then the whole India operation, was a spirited defence of Indian English as a legitimate form of the language, which, once it had thrown off its thrall to babuism, would take its place on the international stage.",
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