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Gunga Din
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English
Etymology
From an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling about an Indian water-carrier, Gunga Din, who saves a wounded soldier before being killed, remembered for its closing line: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
Noun
1
en military slang dated A water carrier person employed to carry water.
en sometimes ironic A person who selflessly serves another.
en eponyms terms derived from fiction
en Rudyard Kipling Fictional characters