dudhwallah

See also: dudh-wallah

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi दूधवाला (dūdhvālā, “milkman”). See wallah.

Noun

dudhwallah (plural dudhwallahs)

  1. (India) A milkman or milkwoman.
    • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days‎:
      […] the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.
    • 2004, Neela Vaswani, "Possession at the Tomb of Sayyed Pir Hazrat Baba Bahadur Saheed Rah Aleh" in Where the Long Grass Bends, Sarabande Books, 2012,
      The dudh-wallah hands Nanak a large cup of lassi and a small cup of milk.
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