Mounted again, the party starts,
Upsets the [hackeries] and carts,
Hammals (see [HUMMAUL]) and [palanquins] and [doolies],
Dobies (see [DHOBY]) and burrawas (?) and [coolies]."
The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi,
by Quiz (Canto viii.).
[Burrawa is probably H. bhaṛuā, 'a pander.']
1829.—"I was tiffing with him one day, when the subject turned on the sagacity of elephants...."—John Shipp, ii. 267.
1859.—"Go home, Jack. I will tiff with you to-day at half-past two."—J. Lang, Wanderings in India, p. 16.
The following, which has just met our eye, is bad grammar, according to Anglo-Indian use: