bashi-bazoukery
UK/baʃɪbəˈzuːkəɹɪ/
bashi-bazoukery noun: extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty.
Noun (1)
bashi-bazoukery (uncountable)
- Extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty.
- […] I knew well the self-important back-patting, the servile admiration, the ambiguous analyses, the petty praise, and the pettier intellectual bashi-bazoukery --'1942, Northern California Writers' Program Work Projects Administration, chapter IV, in An Anthology of Music Criticism, page 372
- Late though the hour, there were quite enough people about to exaggerate the incident into fifty different versions and turn it into as bloodthirsty a piece of bashi-bazoukery as had ever thrilled Sirene.1951, Compton Mackenzie, Vestal Fire, Chatto & Windus, page 168
Noun (2) capitalized: Bashi-Bazoukery
Bashi-Bazoukery (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bashi-bazoukery.
- His government was a system of Bashi-Bazoukery plus slave-raiding, with this difference, that in Sarawak, unlike the Soudan, the slave-raids were undertaken by the orders and under the direction of the Sultans or Rajahs of Brunei.
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Sarawak became independent, the Bashi-Bazoukery from Brunei...1884, James Macaulay, True Tales of Travel and Adventure, Valour and Virtue, Hodder and Stoughton, published 1884, page 76 - Its only redeeming feature was that it prevented internecine wars; and when occasionally a good governor-general was appointed, the Bashi-Bazoukery was reduced to a minimum, and the force of the Egyptian Government was exerted for the repression of the slave-trade, which is the staple industry of...1884 July, “Chinese Gordon”, in The Contributor, page 398
- His government was a system of Bashi-Bazoukery plus slave-raiding, with this difference, that in Sarawak, unlike the Soudan, the slave-raids were undertaken by the orders and under the direction of the Sultans or Rajahs of Brunei.
Forms of bashi-bazoukery
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Origin of bashi-bazoukery
From bashi-bazouk + -ery.
Questions about bashi-bazoukery
- What does bashi-bazoukery mean?
- Bashi-bazoukery means extreme physical violence; brutality; cruelty.
- What part of speech is bashi-bazoukery?
- Bashi-bazoukery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bashi-bazoukery?
- Bashi-bazoukery is pronounced /baʃɪbəˈzuːkəɹɪ/ (UK).
Words near bashi-bazoukery in the dictionary
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