He has more bundobust than most men. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
bundobust — noun /ˈbʌndəbʌst/ A system or discipline; organisation, arrangement, preparation. He was proud of his faculty of organisation what we call bundobust … Wiktionary
bundobust — [ bəndəbʌst] (also bandobast bandəbʌst, bʌndəbast) noun Indian arrangements or organization. Origin Urdu, from Pers. band o bast tying and binding … English new terms dictionary
bundobust — bun·do·bust … English syllables
bundobust — n. see bandobast … Dictionary of difficult words
bundobust — ˈbəndəˌbəst noun ( s) Etymology: Hindi band o bast, literally, tying and binding, from Persian India : arrangement or settlement of details … Useful english dictionary
List of English words of Persian origin — As Indo European languages, English and Persian have many words of common Proto Indo European origin, and many of these cognate words often have similar forms. Examples of these include: English (Mother) and Persian (Madar), English (Father) and… … Wikipedia
bandobust — ˈbəndəˌbəst variant of bundobust * * * bandobast, bandobust var. bundobust … Useful english dictionary
J. K. Stanford — John Keith Stanford OBE MC (1892 1971) was a British writer of the mid 20th century.He was educated at Rugby School and St. John s College, Oxford. He was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment in 1915 and was attached to the Tank Corps from 1917 … Wikipedia
bandabast — bandabast, bandabust varr. bundobust … Useful english dictionary
bandabust — bandabast, bandabust varr. bundobust … Useful english dictionary
