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bandobast

bandobast is the alternative form of bundobust.

Meaning of bundobust

Noun

bundobust (countable and uncountable, plural bundobusts)

  1. (India) A system of discipline; organisation, arrangement, preparation.
    • He was proud of his faculty of organisation—what we call bundobust.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 93

Forms of bandobast

pluralbandobasts

Questions about bandobast

What is bandobast the alternative form of?
Bandobast is the alternative form of bundobust.

Words near bandobast in the dictionary

  1. bandmen
  2. bandmistress
  3. bandmistresses
  4. bandmixing
  5. bando
  6. bandobast
  7. bandobasts
  8. bandobust
  9. bandobusts
  10. bandoe
  11. bandoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bandobast (page history and authors); bundobust (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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