bashi-bazoukery
/baʃɪbəˈzuːkəɹɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] I knew well the self-important back-patting, the servile admiration, the ambiguous analyses, the petty praise, and the pettier intellectual bashi-bazoukery --'"
- "Late though the hour, there were quite enough people about to exaggerate the incident into fifty different versions and turn it into as bloodthirsty a piece of bashi-bazoukery as had ever thrilled Sirene."
- "Bashi-bazoukery was rampant in the area of Urfa and Ulysses was bastinadoed mercilessly."
- "His government was a system of Bashi-Bazoukery plus slave-raiding, with this difference, that in Sarawak, unlike the Soudan, the slave-raids were undertaken by the orders and under the direction of the Sultans or Rajahs of Brunei. […] Sarawak became independent, the Bashi-Bazoukery from Brunei ceased to trouble the tribes, and the homes of the villagers were no longer laid desolate in order to supply victims for the Sultan's pleasure."
- "Its only redeeming feature was that it prevented internecine wars; and when occasionally a good governor-general was appointed, the Bashi-Bazoukery was reduced to a minimum, and the force of the Egyptian Government was exerted for the repression of the slave-trade, which is the staple industry of the Soudan."
- "What a change for them, from the régime of Bashi-Bazoukery, of the pachas, of the stick, the lash, the prison; from the grinding taxation and the denial of even a form of justice!"
Etymology
From bashi-bazouk + -ery.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /baʃɪbəˈzuːkəɹɪ/