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bucksheesh

n. (alternative form of baksheesh English)

Usage examples of "bucksheesh".

They do say that one can get into any walled city of Syria, after night, for bucksheesh, except Damascus.

Strangely enough, the house they point out to you now as his, has been turned into a leper hospital, and the inmates expose their horrid deformities and hold up their hands and beg for bucksheesh when a stranger enters.

They met together in full view of the pilgrims, after the battle, and took lunch, divided the bucksheesh extorted in the season of danger, and then accompanied the cavalcade home to the city!

Beggars, cripples and monks compass you about, and make you think only of bucksheesh when you would rather think of something more in keeping with the character of the spot.

Of course they contracted that the varlets who dragged us up should not mention bucksheesh once.

Of course we contracted with them, paid them, were delivered into the hands of the draggers, dragged up the Pyramids, and harried and be-deviled for bucksheesh from the foundation clear to the summit.