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qui-hi en · INTJ

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi कोई है (koī hai, “is anyone there?”).

Meanings

1. (India, historical) An Anglo-Indian call for a servant.
   • That he had seen service in India was, indeed, probable by his referring to lunch as tiffin, and calling to his parlourmaid with the ejaculation of “Qui-hi.” 1922, Edward Frederic Benson, Miss Mapp, Chapter 1:

qui-hi en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi कोई है (koī hai, “is anyone there?”).

Meanings

1. (India, colloquial, historical) An Anglo-Indian in Bengal.
   • The slang distinctive name for gentlemen belonging to the Bombay service; the correlative of the Mulls of Madras and the Qui-His of Bengal. 1968, Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger, Asian Review, page 134:
   • […] would find themselves at Galle regarded as interlopers by the Bengal "qui-his," as they are called, or high and mighty Anglo-Indians. 1879, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, page 107:

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