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Synonyms for baksheesh

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bak-sheesh, bak-sheesh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæk ʃiʃ, bækˈʃiʃ

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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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