Bashi-Bazouk

bashibazouk bashi-bazouk English Noun 1 en bashi-bazouk. en 1855 December Who are the Kings of the East? William Tait; w:Christian Isobel Johnstone Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine Edinburgh Sutherland & Knox; London: Partridge & Co. XXII 753 https://archive.org/details/taitsedinburghm06johngoog/page/753/mode/1up 2 2044-6225 1607056 The plundering habits of the Bashi-Bazouks have been blamed in bitter language by well-paid correspondents of our press, who forget that the Bashi-Bazouk wanted clothes, food, money—was a starving zealot to a cause which could not support him. Five o'Clock a.m.—The Publication of the ‘Times’ Newspaper 36 Hard-working boys are these juvenile Bashi-Bazouks of the newspaper trade. And I am glad to observe, for the edification of social economists, with scarcely an exception, very honest boys. en 1878 March Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym] Table Talk Sylvanus Urban The Gentleman’s Magazine London Chatto & Windus,Piccadilly CCXLII 1767 380 https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz31unkngoog/page/380/mode/1up 1071746321 In spite of the temporary invasion of that Bashi-Bazouk of card games, Baccarat—whose very existence is, in the eyes of all sober denizens of the clubs, an outrage and a scandal—whist steadily keeps its pre-eminence amongst us. en 14 April 1883 R. W. Giles Pharmaceutical Politics The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions London J[ohn] & A[ugustus] Churchill,New Burlington Street; Edinburgh: MacLachlan & Stewart;Dublin: Fannin & Co.; Leipzig: Twietmeyer. XIII 668 (3rd Series) 853 https://archive.org/details/s1317id1378058/page/693/mode/1up 1 1046013893 It was not in the nature of things that the anomalous condition of pharmacy, at the period of which I am speaking, should be regarded with approval in other quarters, outside the medical profession. Its Bashi-Bazouk irregularity was too flagrant to escape the notice and censure of less interested reformers, although no overt proceedings were taken until the year 1839. en 1893 October C[lement] B[oulton] Roylance Kent Life in Modern Egypt Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym] The Gentleman’s Magazine London Chatto & Windus,214 Piccadilly, London, W. CCLXXV 1954 359 https://archive.org/details/sim_gentlemans-magazine_1893-10_275/page/359/mode/1up 1071746321 The Egyptians are not a military people, and have no liking for military service. There is nothing of the swashbuckler or Bashi-Bazouk about them. en 29 August 1912 Francis E[dward] Clark Turkey in War Time w:William Hayes Ward The Independent New York, N.Y. The Independent LXXIII 3326 487 https://archive.org/details/independent73newy/page/n508/mode/1up 1 4927591 For a country that is engaged in a serious armed conflict with a powerful nation, Turkey is today most quiet and apparently unconcerned. This is the more remarkable when we think of the traditional tho perhaps erroneous view of the average Turk, which pictures him as a bloodthirsty Bashi-Bazouk, whirling a double-edged sword and howling for revenge upon his enemies.