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bustee

bustee is the alternative spelling of basti.

Meaning of basti

Noun

basti (plural bastis)

  1. (India, North) A slum.
    • There is a dreary bustee in the neighbourhood which is said to make the most of any cholera that may be going.1891, Rudyard Kipling, The City Of Dreadful Night

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Forms of bustee

pluralbustees

Questions about bustee

What is bustee the alternative spelling of?
Bustee is the alternative spelling of basti.

Words near bustee in the dictionary

  1. busted someone's ass
  2. busted the dust
  3. busted up
  4. busted valise
  5. busted valises
  6. bustee
  7. bustees
  8. buster
  9. Buster Brown
  10. Buster Brown suit
  11. Buster Brown suits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bustee (page history and authors); basti (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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