dudhwallah

See also: dudh-wallah

English

Alternative forms

• dudhwalla
• dudh-wallah

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi दूधवाला (dūdhvālā, “milkman”). See wallah.

Noun

dudhwallah (plural dudhwallahs)

1. (India) A milkman or milkwoman.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days‎^[1]:

     […] the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.

   • 2004, Neela Vaswani, "Possession at the Tomb of Sayyed Pir Hazrat Baba Bahadur Saheed Rah Aleh" in Where the Long Grass Bends, Sarabande Books, 2012, [2]

     The dudh-wallah hands Nanak a large cup of lassi and a small cup of milk.