Definition of "jhampanis" []

• Plural form of jhampani. (noun)

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• "Then turning again to the jhampanis, big with harrowing detail, added: "The devil who did this thing, hath he escaped?""
• "A short scuffle ensued, shouts and the tramping of feet -- sounds which brought the flying jhampanis back in a twinkling, surcharged with voluble valour and explanations."
• "His wife herself was, in the meanwhile, journeying hopefully back to the Kresneys 'bungalow, on the shoulders of four long-suffering jhampanis, who murmured a little among themselves, without rancour or vexation, concerning the perplexing ways of Memsahibs in general."