BACKSHEESHED

Verb

backsheeshed

simple past tense and past participle of backsheesh

Source: Wiktionary


BACKSHEESH

Back"sheesh`, Back"shish`, n. Etym: [Pers. bakhshish, fr. bakhshidan to give.]

Definition: In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SHTIK

(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”


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