budnamed
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]budnamed (not comparable)
- (India, nonce word) Given a bad reputation.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills:
- This Devil thing will end in getting me budnamed, and you know I've lived on lemon-squashes and gone to bed at ten for weeks past.
- 1939, Victor Bayley, Indian artifex:
- My signaller retired hurt after being budnamed by yours, so we have no coherent news.