Meanings
nounbhisti (plural bhistis or bhisties)
plural bhistis · plural bhisties
- alternativeAlternative form of bheestie (“a traditional water-carrier of South Asia”).
He remembered Pam horse-whipping a blackguard of a corporal who was found to have interfered with the bhisti’s sister.
1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 1221 more example
The finest man I knew / Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din[…]'Water, get it! Panee lao! / 'You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din.'
1890, Rudyard Kipling, “Gunga Din”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 23
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