"manoos" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: manooses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} manoos (plural manooses)
  1. (India) A man, especially one who is unlucky or who has a tendency to complain. Tags: India
    Sense id: en-manoos-en-noun-l5mP4wyT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Indian English

Inflected forms

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          "text": "It was thus considered disgraceful for the better classes, freemen and Hindoos, to hire them'selves for labour, and they have always avoided being employed as coolies as far as practicable, by pleading their right of “exemption as bhalo manooses or gentlemen.\"",
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          "ref": "2011, Sunil Sethi, The Big Bookshelf: Sunil Sethi in Conversation with 30 Famous Writers, page 56",
          "text": "I think the party is about to end because the average marathi manoos is not in a mood to tolerate anyone, whether one of their own, or someone thrust on them via Delhi, who continues to give Mumbai such an awful name.",
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          "ref": "2015, Shobhaa De, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable",
          "text": "The use of the word 'outsiders' has radically changed the delicate equation between the 'real' Marathi manoos and those who throng to Mumbai in search of jobs.",
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          "ref": "2016, Mihir Sharma, Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy",
          "text": "Fifty years on, the 'Marathi manoos' whose primacy the Sena and its offshoots seek to protect is imagined above all as an aggrieved petty government official, not a trader, nor an entrepreneur, nor a mill-worker.",
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