(India, historical) A messenger or orderly attached to an office, and bearing a belt and brass badge.
(India, historical) A messenger or orderly attached to an office, and bearing a belt and brass badge.
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(India, historical, colloquial) A member of the civil service who obtained an appointment by the competitive system instituted in 1856.
(India, historical, colloquial) A surveyor.
A historical Anglo-Indian term for the driver or operator of a tonga — a light two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage used as public transport in colonial India. Like 'compass wallah', it combines a specific noun with the Hindi '-wallah' suffix denoting the person associated with that thing.
(UK, military, aviation, slang, dated) An officer who does not fly aircraft.
(UK, slang, derogatory) A person employed at a military base, or with a job far behind the front lines.