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budmash

budmash 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 budmash

pluralbudmashes

Questions about budmash

What is budmash the alternative spelling of?
Budmash is the alternative spelling of badmash.

Words near budmash in the dictionary

  1. budlike
  2. budling
  3. budlings
  4. Budlong
  5. Budlongs
  6. budmash
  7. budmashes
  8. budmoth
  9. budmoths
  10. budnamed
  11. budneck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: budmash (page history and authors); badmash (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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