budlee

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani बदली (badlī) / بَدلِی (badlī).

Noun

budlee (plural budlees)

1. (India, obsolete) A substitute in public or domestic service.
   • 1881, Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India: 1857-1858, page 631:

     […] he had thought it prudent to send a "budlee" to be shot in his place.

References

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “budlee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].