Butcha is a historical Anglo-Indian informal term for the young of any animal, extended by usage to mean a child or young person.
Butcha is a historical Anglo-Indian informal term for the young of any animal, extended by usage to mean a child or young person. The second sense — applied to human children — was the more colloquial and is the one that carried most social currency in Anglo-Indian speech. Like many Anglo-Indian terms, it reflects the blending of Hindi/Urdu vocabulary into the casual English spoken by colonial British and mixed communities. Archaic in contemporary usage; encountered in period literature and colonial memoirs.
The butchas from the settlement played in the road outside while the adults talked on the verandah.
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(India, obsolete) Small; younger.
(India, obsolete) A boutique; a small shop.
A historical Anglo-Indian term for a boutique or small shop, used in British India contexts. The word is an anglicised form of the Portuguese 'boutique' or its cognates as filtered through Indian trade usage. Now entirely obsolete.
(India, historical, slang, by extension) A child.
(India, historical) The young of any animal.