Baksheesh
a tip, present, or gratuity.
to give a tip.
Historical Examples
Still, I am sorry now I didn’t contribute the baksheesh he expected.
The Ship Dwellers Albert Bigelow Paine
Those incapables had no doubt been after David for baksheesh, and he felt just that way.
The Ship Dwellers Albert Bigelow Paine
The first word these loons pronounce after coming into the world must be baksheesh.
Romantic Spain 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.
The Walls of Constantinople Bernard Granville Baker
For the first two years of war he kept out of the army by means of baksheesh.
Eastern Nights – and Flights Alan Bott
In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.
The Making Of A Novelist David Christie Murray
What was more, he (p. 303) and his firm were never troubled any more with inexorable demands for baksheesh.
An Englishman in Paris 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.
The Ship Dwellers 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.
At the Court of the Amr John Alfred Gray
Donkey-boys and arabeah-men aren’t easily seduced when there’s a question of baksheesh.
It Happened in Egypt C. N. Williamson
noun
money given as a tip, a present, or alms
verb
to give such money to (a person)
n.
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).
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