dudhwallah

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noun

A milkman or milkwoman.

OriginHindi दूधवाला →
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Meanings

noundudhwallah (plural dudhwallahs)

plural dudhwallahs · alternative dudhwalla · alternative dudh-wallah

  1. IndiaA milkman or milkwoman.

    […] the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.

    1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days
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    2004, Neela Vaswani, "Possession at the Tomb of Sayyed Pir Hazrat Baba Bahadur Saheed Rah Aleh" in Where the Long Grass Bends, Sarabande Books, 2012, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZQ5XgmT63mwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The dudh-wallah hands Nanak a large cup of lassi and a small cup of milk.

Origin

  1. Hindiदूधवाला“milkman”
  2. Englishdudhwallah

Borrowed from Hindi दूधवाला (dūdhvālā, “milkman”). See wallah.

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APA

dudhwallah. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudhwallah

MLA

“dudhwallah.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dudhwallah. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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