See baksheesh in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLVIII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, pages 504–505:",
"text": "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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"ref": "2005 December 6, Jim Eagles, “Egypt: Smile on the Nile”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: Wilson and Horton, →ISSN:",
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"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bækˈʃiːʃ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baksheesh.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baksheesh.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baksheesh.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baksheesh.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-baksheesh.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːʃ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bachshish"
},
{
"word": "bakshee"
},
{
"word": "backsheesh"
},
{
"word": "backshish"
},
{
"word": "backsishe"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "bacsheese"
},
{
"word": "bacshish"
},
{
"word": "bakhshish"
},
{
"word": "bakhshîsh"
},
{
"word": "bucksheesh"
},
{
"word": "buckshish"
},
{
"word": "buksheesh"
},
{
"word": "bukshish"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "buxees"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "buxies"
},
{
"word": "buxie"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"baksheesh"
],
"word": "baksheesh"
}
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