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baksheesh

A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)

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      Uso de backsheesh en inglés
      1
      He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
      Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
      2
      Give backsheesh with kind face, and not send poor Arab to Assouan.
      The Rosary
      3
      I contented myself with giving him backsheesh, while my companion photographed him.
      As Seen By Me
      4
      Give good backsheesh, and not sit down halfway and say: 'No top'!
      The Rosary
      5
      It is like a three-tailed Pasha grumbling about an unsatisfactory backsheesh.
      The Book of Snobs
      6
      Everywhere you go you hear the insistent, importunate cry for backsheesh.
      As Seen By Me
      7
      Still clamoring and thrusting up hands for backsheesh they kept pace with him.
      King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
      8
      I should think it's me that deserves backsheesh if anybody does.
      Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to...
      9
      The inhabitants of Bscharai paid us a visit for the purpose of demanding backsheesh.
      A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
      10
      The boys came staring round, bawling after us with their fathers for the inevitable backsheesh.
      Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
      11
      He told me the population of the United States, and I gave him more backsheesh.
      As Seen By Me
      12
      If he takes us there straight, he gets backsheesh.
      A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle
      13
      I was so surprised to hear "Bible" instead of "backsheesh" that I investigated.
      As Seen By Me
      14
      I think I know forty or fifty words already, besides my 'salaam aleikum' and 'backsheesh.'
      Letters from Egypt
      15
      But it's working all right-r-i-g-h-t. It's worth the backsheesh!
      The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Co...
      16
      He spelled America, and I gave him backsheesh.
      As Seen By Me
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      baksheesh
      Backsheesh a través del tiempo
      Backsheesh por variante geográfica
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