(South Asia) The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.
(South Asia) The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.
: Close by, but only to be glimpsed through the gateway in a high stucco wall, similarly shaded, is the bungalow once known as the chummery where three of four of Mr White's unmarried sub-divisional officers - usually Indians of the unco…
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(obsolete, UK, slang) The lodging of several people in a single apartment.
(India, obsolete) A lodging-house in South India for pilgrims and travelling members of the higher castes.
(obsolete, UK, slang) A fee paid by a prisoner to be able to lodge in shared rooms within a prison.
(military, historical, slang) A member of the 11th Hussars, a cavalry regiment of the British Army established in 1715.
(India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.