Crossword-Solution: BABOOS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The Bengali baboos make the pretty little males of the amadavat (Estrelda amandava) fight together by placing three small cages in a row, with a female in the middle; after a little time the two males are turned loose, and immediately a desperate battle ensues.

Lead the way now, and let me make my salaam to your coolest mat and your largest punka, for I am hot and tired." "S'pose Sahib like, _Belatta pawnee_ have got?" "_Acha; Belatta pawnee lou_."[18] Here, indeed, was a wide stride in the direction of refinement and Evangelism! Soda-water in a bhearer's house! Karlee had not served the Sahibs, and observed "Young Bengal" baboos, in vain.

Like all true Hindoo houses, uncorrupted by the European innovations which snobbish baboos affect, it contained but few articles of furniture, and those of the simplest and most indispensable description,--nothing for luxury, nothing for show.

The native staff of a garden consists of, say, two baboos, or book-keepers and clerks, a doctor baboo, sirdars or overseers, and chowkidars or line watchmen.

These baboos and their newspapers, I am told, would only become dangerous at a crisis; and by a crisis is understood a disastrous European war.