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badmaash

badmaash is the alternative spelling of badmash.

Meaning of badmash

Noun

badmash (plural badmashes)

  1. (British, India, Pakistan, South-Asia, British Pakistani) A rogue, ruffian or miscreant.
    • ‘However big a badmash one is – if one's happy in consequence, that's some justification.’1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 102

Forms of badmaash

pluralbadmaashes

Questions about badmaash

What is badmaash the alternative spelling of?
Badmaash is the alternative spelling of badmash.

Words near badmaash in the dictionary

  1. badly
  2. badly off
  3. badly packed kebab
  4. badly packed kebabs
  5. badly-off
  6. badmaash
  7. badmaashes
  8. badman
  9. Badmans
  10. badmash
  11. badmashes

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