butcha
Butcha is a historical Anglo-Indian informal term for the young of any animal, extended by usage to mean a child or young person.
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Butcha is a historical Anglo-Indian informal term for the young of any animal, extended by usage to mean a child or young person. The second sense — applied to human children — was the more colloquial and is the one that carried most social currency in Anglo-Indian speech. Like many Anglo-Indian terms, it reflects the blending of Hindi/Urdu vocabulary into the casual English spoken by colonial British and mixed communities. Archaic in contemporary usage; encountered in period literature and colonial memoirs.
The butchas from the settlement played in the road outside while the adults talked on the verandah.
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(India, historical) The young of any animal.
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(India, historical, slang, by extension) A child.
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