babu english
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A variety of Indian English characterized by excessive formality, politeness, ornamentation, and an indirect manner of communication.
Indian usage; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Despite the innocuous-sounding claim that the purpose of his article was ‘to provide a few notes on the characteristics of English used to-day by the educated Indian’ (Goffin 1934: 20), Goffin’s text is very much in the ‘Babu English’ tradition, that is, it derides the way in which Indians used English."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Baboo English (alternative, dated)