gandu

plural gandus · alternative goondu

1. IndiaPakistanslangvulgarAn arsehole, an idiot.

   That gandu has set men after me.

   2020, Ranjay Chowdhury, Ram Khan: The Weird Wizard

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   She was almost nice, or trying to be. But that Khushaal. What a gandu! A real ass!

   2011, Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement, page 358

   'I see you've put up a picture of Maggu Mahapatra and that gandu prince, what's his name, Tuttu...'

   2011, Aatish Taseer, Noon: A Novel

   I am not here to disturb your honeymoon with that gandu-actor.

   2012, Shobha De, Sethji

   See—a gandu, nothing more, just like I said. Surely if it were a plot, they'd send a proper man.

   2013, Manil Suri, The City of Devi, page 327

   This Khushaal—you haven't seen his photographs, have you sir? The ugliest gandu in town...

   2019, Anand Ranganathan, Chitra Subramaniam, The Rat Eater

2. IndiaPakistanoffensiveslangvulgarSomeone who takes the passive role in anal sex.

   He is less likely to be considered a gandu (since presumably he can satisfy himself carnally at will with his wife).

   1997, Hasan Mujtaba, Stephen O. Murray, Will Roscoe, Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature, page 31

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   Calling Nasim a gandu and declaring a jehad against gay Muslims, he allegedly lunged at Nasim while two restaurant employees tried to restrain him.

   2001, Trikone - Volumes 16-18, page 20

   Mustafa renarrativized his heterosexuality by playing gay as a way to control and test how much of a "Gandu" or "Chakka" Khushaal was.

   2015, Stanley I. Thangaraj, Desi Hoop Dreams, page 187

plural gandus

1. AfricaWestA work agreement usually involving a married man and his adult sons who take on responsibility for the fieldwork of a farm on which they all live.

   There are several variations in the organization of gandu in this area.

   1966, Dhara S. Gill, FAO Socio-economic Survey of Peasant Agriculture in Northern Nigeria, page 70

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   He described a number of other possibilities, for example, that in the event of a father's death, brothers might continue the gandu, with the senior brother taking the father's position as head.

   2005, Steven Pierce, Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano

   Hill found that in Dorayi, few married sons left gandu. Fathers were reluctant to release married sons from gandu and seldom granted them gayauna.

   2014, Paul Clough, Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa