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plural bullumteers
(India, military, slang, obsolete) A volunteer of certain regiments of the old Bengal Army. quotations
The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202
We were all bullumteers on the Canal works.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, His Brother’s Keeper