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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2017-06-09 07:48 am

oont

oont (OONT) - n., (Anglo-Indian, Australia) (coll.) a camel.


Apparently sometimes with the connotation of an attractive camel. Borrowed in the early 18th century from Hindi ū̃ṭ, from Sanskrit uṣṭra, camel.

---L.