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(India) usually in combination person in charge of or employed at a particular thing
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wallah
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wallah may refer to: Wallah (Arabic) -walla (or -wala , wali fem.), derived from Marathi and Hindustani वाला والا -vālā (suffix forming an adjectival compound with a noun or an agentive sense with a verb), an Indian surname or suffix indicating a person ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The camels were let go for feeding under the charge of one unth wallah .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context India English) A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example ''kitchen wallah''. 2 (context British slang English) A guy or bloke. Etymology 2 interj. (misspelling of voilà English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing; "a kitchen wallah"; "the book wallah"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wallah \Wal"lah\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also walla , "person employed (in some specified business)," Anglo-Indian, from Hindi -wala , suffix forming adjectives with the sense "pertaining to, connected with;" the functional equivalent of English -er (1). Europeans took it to mean "man, fellow" ...
Usage examples of wallah.
He recalled how the street seemed inanely alive with the horrid cheer that haunted zoos and menageries, how the cries of bird sellers, of puppy wallahs and cat peddlers intermingled and created an eerie and disturbing echolalia, at once mocking of and mocked by the chatter of their caged and staring stock in trade.
Among the, Nadowessies or Dahcotahs, the subdivision has been still greater, the same original tribe having given birth to the Konsas, the Mandans, the Tetons, the Yangtongs, Sassitongs, Ollah-Gallahs, the Siones, the Wallah Wallahs, the Cayuses, the Black-feet, and lastly the Winnebagoes.
M'Kenzie, who conducted the third party from the Wallah- Wallah, navigated for several days up the south branch of the Columbia, named the Camoenum by the natives, but commonly called Lewis River, in honor of the first explorer.
When I did, it was to find myself in a pleasant, whitewashed room, with the sun slanting through wooden shutters, and a punkah wallah dozing against the wall, automatically twitching the string of his big fan.
When the film came to that section when the beleaguered garrison could hold out no longer, across the horizon came a few dozen topees piping "Over the seas to Skye", some short-muzzle Lee Enfields saying, "Cor blimey", and some gay young sahibs with punkah wallahs in attendance.