🔤 Babuisms ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
babu ki zaban, rasmi angrezi taraz, takallufana angrezi
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ENGLISH
📚noun
babuisms
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈbɑːbuːɪzəmz/
Phonetic: /bah boo iz umz/
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DEFINITION
overly formal, pedantic, or ungrammatical English phrases associated with Indian clerks
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
His official correspondence was full of archaic babuisms that amused modern readers.
The editor corrected several awkward babuisms in the initial draft of report.
Linguists study historic babuisms to trace the evolution of South Asian English usage.
Overly elaborate babuisms often made business letters unnecessarily wordy and grandiloquent.
He avoided using dated babuisms to keep his formal writing clear and direct.
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ANTONYMS
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