Meanings
nounjhampani (plural jhampanis)
plural jhampanis · alternative jhampanie
- An Indian rickshaw-bearer.
Tell your jhampanis not to hurry so, dear. They forget I'm fresh from the Plains.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Ilusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 811 more example
A hillman from some distant village in Kumaon comes into Almora to make his fortune as a jhampani or coolie.
1925, Sir Gerald Burrard, Big game hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet
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