juwaub
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hindi [Term?] (“an answer”)
Noun[edit]
juwaub (plural juwaubs)
- (India, dated, British military slang) A formal refusal.
- 1836, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia, page 97:
- These offices are often to be filled up, their untiring perseverance occasioning the secession of a member, who, after having sustained repeated juwaubs, is accepted at last, […]
Verb[edit]
juwaub (third-person singular simple present juwaubs, present participle juwaubing, simple past and past participle juwaubed)