Fellow-soldier, be a scalawag, be a bashi-bazouk, be a Billy-Wilsoneer, if you wish to see the fun in the van!

At worst I can turn my hand to doctoring Bashi-bazouks.

When we clattered into the cobbled street, we found a solitary Bashi-Bazouk armed with a Winchester repeating rifle.

You go as a dignified soldier of her Majesty's; I as an undignified Abel Drugger, to dose Bashi-bazouks.

Poor Jake, he was a fine, swaggering fellow; a smart sailor, and as brave as a Turkish Bashi-Bazouk.

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?