Meanings
nounbullumteer (plural bullumteers)
plural bullumteers
- IndiaobsoleteslanggovernmentA volunteer of certain regiments of the old Bengal Army.
We were all bullumteers on the Canal works.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, His Brother’s Keeper1 more example
The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202
Origin
From volunteer, as pronounced by sepoys.
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