malley
An Anglo-Indian term from the colonial period for a gardener or person employed in garden work.
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An Anglo-Indian term from the colonial period for a gardener or person employed in garden work. The word is an anglicised form of the Hindi or Urdu mali, meaning gardener. Common in colonial-era writing about Indian household staff and now archaic.
The malley came by each morning to water the pots and sweep the path.
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(India, obsolete) A gardener.
“Whatever the hell her name actually is, I'm not reading O'Malley.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Olruggio, who is fighting the instinct to go full Thomas O’Malley on his soft & humongous roomie🙂↕️ Qifrey is just waking up from a nap and completely unaware of how handsome he is… probably. WIP #WitchHatAtelier #OruFrey #FanArt”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Dang I was hoping for the Capitan O’Malley one”
— Bluesky· May 2026“#AiWeiwei is no stranger to censorship. Now, his new book examines how censorship persists not just in authoritarian states, but in democracies too. JP O'Malley explores more in our latest issue. Subscribe⬇️ shop.exacteditions.com/index-on-cen...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Curious: what’s wrong with o malley? I’m out of the loop”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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