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badmash

bad·mash [ búd msh ] (plural bad·mash·es)


noun  South Asia 
Definition:
 
1. hooligan: somebody considered to be aggressive, violent, or evil

2. term of reproof: used as a term of mock reproof, especially when scolding children
What badmash could have made all this mess?

[Mid-19th century. < Urdu< Persian bad "evil" + Arabic ma'āš "means of livelihood"]
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