Definition of "bint" [bint]

• Chiefly British & Offensive A woman or girl. (noun)

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• "Ellison is proud of his friends, who tend to be important people and in part because they are important people, which is so horrifying a sentiment that I would have wept had I been in my own house instead of 'bint's."
• "They were received by Major Craufurd as a stately omda, and by the second in command as a "bint" with head-dress, yasmak gown and beribboned pyjama trousers."
• "McLoughlin first fell under the "spell of far Arabia" when he noticed his father using exotic words such as "bint," "shufti" and "yallah" - brought home from Egypt and the western desert in the second world war."