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juomaraha
puhekieltä in the Middle East, southwest Asia and eastern Eastern Europe: a bribeNoun bribe or tipNoun tip.
1869, (w), w:The Innocents Abroad|The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land: With Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as they Appeared to the Author: With Two Hundred and Thirty-four Illustrations, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company et al.'', (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/197666920 197666920; republished San Francisco, Calif: w:Hubert Howe Bancroft|H. H. Bancroft and Company; Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1869, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/851260735 851260735, https://books.google.com/books?id=Bt5DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA505 pages 504–505:
- As we rode into (w) not a soul was visible. But the ring of the horses' hoofs roused the stupid population, and they all came trooping out—old men and old women, boys and girls, the blind, the crazy, and the crippled, all in ragged, soiled and scanty raiment, and all abject beggars by nature, instinct and education. (..) Out of their infidel throats, with one accord, burst an agonizing and most infernal chorus: "Howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! howajji, bucksheesh! bucksheesh! bucksheesh!" I never was in a storm like that before. As we paid the bucksheesh out to sore-eyed children and brown, buxom girls with repulsively tattooed lips and chins, we filed through the town (..)
(quote-book) the complex Oriental etiquette which under the name of “baksheesh” calls for lavish remuneration and bribes, rudely demanded but ever so graciously accepted by the natives in return for little or no services rendered.
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(quote-journal)|location=Auckland|publisher=Wilson and Horton|date=6 December 2005|issn=1170-0777|passage=In the tomb of w:Ramesses III|Ramses III, one side chamber has beautiful pictures showing musicians playing for the pharoah(SI) and his fellow gods. (..) In yet another are poignant scenes of everyday life in Egypt. They don't show people demanding backsheesh but I suspect it happened back then because it seems bred into the local psyche. The guards in the tombs want payment for offering unnecessary directions, for handing out pieces of cardboard able to be used as fans – and for just being there.
To bribe with a baksheesh.
puhekieltä (l) (gloss)
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