nanty

A lady friend of mine, who found a difficulty in acquiring Malay, pronounced _nanti dahulu_, or _nanti dulu_ as generally spoken, "nanty doodle," and suggested that "the nanty doodles" could be a good name for "the Brunai Malays."

British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884