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dudhwallah en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi दूधवाला (dūdhvālā, “milkman”). See wallah.

Meanings

1. (India) A milkman or milkwoman.
   • […] the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah. 1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days:
   • 2004, Neela Vaswani, "Possession at the Tomb of Sayyed Pir Hazrat Baba Bahadur Saheed Rah Aleh" in Where the Long Grass Bends, Sarabande Books, 2012, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZQ5XgmT63mwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The dudh-wallah hands Nanak a large cup of lassi and a small cup of milk.

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