Meanings
nounbudlee (plural budlees)
plural budlees
- IndiaobsoleteA substitute in public or domestic service.
[…] he had thought it prudent to send a "budlee" to be shot in his place.
1881, Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India: 1857-1858, page 631
Origin
Borrowed from Hindustani बदली (badlī) / بَدلِی (badlī).
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