baboo

plural baboos

1. archaicArchaic spelling of babu.

   An embezzlement of government money to the extent of about Rs. 2,000 was discovered some time ago in the post-office here, between the baboo, mutsuddy and mohurrer.

   1835 February 28, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 104

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   […] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]

   1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219