Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pasha.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as pasha.
- n. A grandee; an important personage; a bigwig.
- n. The mud-cat, Leptops olivaris.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A Turkish title of honor, now written
pasha . See pasha. - n. Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
- n. (Zoöl.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called
goujon ,mud cat , andyellow cat .
Etymologies
- Variant of pasha. (Wiktionary)
- Arabic bāšā, from Turkish paşa; see pasha. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Veil, sir, I'm vot they calls a bashaw of the pigs -- but I'm more than that.”
“In the confidence of victory, they boasted that the whole Turkish power must have yielded to their arms; but the admiral, or captain bashaw, found some consolation for a painful wound in his eye, by representing that accident as the cause of his defeat.”
“In the royal presence, the captain bashaw was extended on the ground by four slaves, and received one hundred strokes with a golden rod: 46 his death had been pronounced; and he adored the clemency of the sultan, who was satisfied with the milder punishment of confiscation and exile.”
“[FN#178] The Arab. form (our old "bashaw") of the Turk.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bashaw’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Catfish
catfish, channel cat, noodling, wolf-fish, sea-cat, James Hunter, Mekong giant catfish, walking catfish, eel catfish, clariid, goujon, flathead catfish and 29 more...
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Pshaw, Hawkshaw!
Take the bashaw in the rickshaw, or no cumshaw for you.
pshaw, hawkshaw, bashaw, rickshaw, autorickshaw, scrimshaw, trishaw, cumshaw, cycle-rickshaw, crenshaw, kickshaw, hernshaw
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Words in Melville's "Moby Dick"
grapnels, spile, pea coffee, farrago, grego, bosky, bombazine, brevet, cenotaph, cupidity, kelson, obliquity and 164 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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Moby-Dick
Interesting words and usages.
hypo, spile, hunks, grapnel, squitchy, skrimshander, monkey jacket, direful, grego, wrapall, dreadnaught, bosky and 158 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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foreign affairs
abacost, abra, zamindar, wampum, chobdar, chota-hazri, chandoo, dacoit, Devanagari, dewan, gen-gen, gharry and 87 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bashaw.
knitandpurl "I was most curious to know why the woman had not been better treated—she, the wife of a member of the Petit-Parliament, a Bashaw!"
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 34
Sep 1, 2011
madmouth in the English (I saw it in Moby-Dick and then there are the works cited below). OE says it's the earlier form.
ETA: I suspect -aw is a way of expressing the contrast in length that is inherent in that word in its original language; the unadorned 'a' is short whereas 'aw' is long (according to English orthography). not true; they're both long in the original Persian, which is pa:dʃa: in IPA. this word appears in Urdu as baadshah (king); -ah and -aw, therefore, both serve in English transliterations of long 'a'. Jun 19, 2009
bilby Variant in the English rendering or in the source tongue(s)? Jun 19, 2009
madmouth var. of pasha Jun 19, 2009
chained_bear A Sea of Words: A grandee, a haughty, imperious man. From the title of rulers of Barbary Coast countries. (p. 102) Usage on firman. Oct 13, 2008
chained_bear "'Not to know the odds between a halliard and a sheet, after all these years at sea: it passes human understanding,' said Jack.
"'You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw — do this, do that, gluppit the prawling strangles, there — no longer a social being at all. It is no doubt the effect of the long-continued habit of command; but it cannot be considered amiable.'
"Diana said nothing: she had a considerable experience and she knew that if men were to be at all tolerable they must be fed..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War, p. 272 Feb 6, 2008