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Meanings of bashi-bazouk in English

Russian
башибузуки
Portuguese
bashi-bazouk
Catalan
bashi bozuk askeri
Spanish
bashi-bazouk

Irregular soldier of the Ottoman army.

башибузуки
Usage of bashi-bazouk in English
1
Fellow-soldier, be a scalawag, be a bashi-bazouk, be a Billy-Wilsoneer, if you wish to see the fun in the van!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 / A Magazine...
2
At worst I can turn my hand to doctoring Bashi-bazouks.
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
3
When we clattered into the cobbled street, we found a solitary Bashi-Bazouk armed with a Winchester repeating rifle.
Recollections / With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a n...
4
You go as a dignified soldier of her Majesty's; I as an undignified Abel Drugger, to dose Bashi-bazouks.
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
5
Poor Jake, he was a fine, swaggering fellow; a smart sailor, and as brave as a Turkish Bashi-Bazouk.
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
6
But may I ask what all this means, and why you were hiding behind my curtains as though you were a burglar or a Bashi-Bazouk?
Molly Bawn