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bullumteers

bullumteers is the plural of bullumteer.

Meaning of bullumteer

Noun

bullumteer (plural bullumteers)

  1. (India, obsolete, slang) A volunteer of certain regiments of the old Bengal Army.
    • The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202

Questions about bullumteers

What is bullumteers the plural of?
Bullumteers is the plural of bullumteer.

Words near bullumteers in the dictionary

  1. Bullucan
  2. Bulluck
  3. Bullucks
  4. bullulate
  5. bullumteer
  6. bullumteers
  7. Bullumwaal
  8. bullvalene
  9. bullvalenes
  10. bullvalone
  11. bullvalones

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