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wallah

[wah-lah, -luh]

wal·lah

[wah-lah, -luh]
noun Anglo-Indian.
a person in charge of, employed at, or concerned with a particular thing (used in combination): a book wallah; a ticket wallah.

Origin:
1770–80; < Hindi -wālā suffix of relation
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Wallah is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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wallah or walla (ˈwɒlə)
 
n
informal (usually in combination) a person involved with or in charge of (a specified thing): the book wallah
 
[C18: from Hindi -wālā from Sanskrit pāla protector]
 
walla or walla
 
n
 
[C18: from Hindi -wālā from Sanskrit pāla protector]

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