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badmash

/ ʌðˈɑːʃ /

adjective

  1. naughty or bad
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a hooligan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of badmash1

C21: from Urdu, from Persian bad evil + Arabic livelihood
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In the video protagonist Pabo “Badmash”, or Pabo the Thug, is setting out to defeat the virus.

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‘The badmash,’ Bipin chuckled; ‘I have got him at last.’

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That's all well and good, but there are moments when you really do want to look beyond what it means to "puckrow" a "beebee" or tolerate a "badmash chuckeroo."

"We'll see who's a badmash!" the youth returned loftily.

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The bullet head of one sturdy badmash cracked like an eggshell under the butt of the bold tar's musket; a second received the terrible hook square in the teeth; and a third, no other than Parmiter himself, was caught round the neck at the next lunge of the hook, and flung, with a mighty heave, full into the midst of the defenders.

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