Baboo English

Baboo English
пренебр.
неправильная английская речь индийцев (особ. английская речь индийских чиновников, кичившихся своим английским, хотя и второсортным образованием)

At first his effort would be crude; he would be looking up long words in the dictionary, and stringing them together, a kind of Baboo English. (U. Sinclair, ‘Boston’, part I, ch. XV) — Первые его попытки были неуклюжи. В словаре он выискивал длинные слова и нанизывал их одно на другое - получалось нечто вроде английского, на каком говорят в Индии.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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