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gunga din

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables
gun-ga din
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A water carrier (person employed to carry water).

Dated; Slang

noun

A person who selflessly serves another.

Etymology

From an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling about an Indian water-carrier, Gunga Din, who saves a wounded soldier before being killed, remembered for its closing line: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."

Usage

Inflected Forms

Gunga Dins (plural)

Questions

What does gunga din mean?
A water carrier (person employed to carry water).
Where does gunga din come from?
From an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling about an Indian water-carrier, Gunga Din, who saves a wounded soldier before being killed, remembered for its closing line: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."

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