Definition of "backsheesh" [back•sheesh]

• Alternative spelling of baksheesh. (noun)
• Alternative spelling of baksheesh. (verb)

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• "There is this in common, in all the procession of Mayers through the ages, that their outward equipment has always sought some little bit of promise of greenery from nature's springtide, and rather a large piece of the human nature which runs to seed in the oriental "backsheesh" -- a picturesque combination of blessing and begging."
• "a present of some small object, which is called the backsheesh, or gift."
• "I.E. he designates, with a pardonable smile of self-approval, as "backsheesh" given him, without solicitation, by the government of India; a circumstance that probably appeals to his"