Synonyms for baksheesh

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bak-sheesh, bak-sheesh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæk ʃiʃ, bækˈʃiʃ

Top 10 synonyms for baksheesh

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Définition of baksheesh

Origin : 1620s, in India, Egypt, etc., "a tip," from Persian bakhshish, literally "gift," from verb bakhshidan "to give" (also "to forgive"), from PIE root *bhag- "to share out, apportion, distribute" (see -phagous).

As in consideration : noun payment

Example sentences :

Those incapables had no doubt been after David for baksheesh, and he felt just that way.
Extract from : « The Ship Dwellers » by Albert Bigelow Paine

Still, I am sorry now I didn't contribute the baksheesh he expected.
Extract from : « The Ship Dwellers » by Albert Bigelow Paine

The first word these loons pronounce after coming into the world must be baksheesh.
Extract from : « Romantic Spain » by John Augustus O'Shea

The next best thing to do is to forget the wish, pay two-pence in baksheesh and ride away to get the most of a glorious view.
Extract from : « The Walls of Constantinople » by Bernard Granville Baker

For the first two years of war he kept out of the army by means of baksheesh.
Extract from : « Eastern Nights - and Flights » by Alan Bott

In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.
Extract from : « The Making Of A Novelist » by David Christie Murray

What was more, he (p. 303) and his firm were never troubled any more with inexorable demands for baksheesh.
Extract from : « An Englishman in Paris » by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

It put an end to baksheesh—graft as you call it—in Thebes, and it would be valuable to-day in Cairo, I should think.
Extract from : « The Ship Dwellers » by Albert Bigelow Paine

Mounted men were racing off full speed to Kabul and the other big towns; those who got in first received the baksheesh.
Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray

Donkey-boys and arabeah-men aren't easily seduced when there's a question of baksheesh.
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

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