Baboo

Baboo (Bengali and Hindustani Babu), properly a term of respect, like Master or Mr, in this sense now used only in Lower Bengal. Anglo-Indians often understand it as meaning a superficially cultivated Bengali; and it often means neither more nor less than 'a native clerk who writes English.' English so written, more copious than correct, and delighting in long and learned words often most ingeniously misapplied, is known as Baboo-English. See Sir Henry Yule's Hobson Jobson (1886). See BABA.