Home                   
Word of the Week
Links for Word Lovers
Crossword Solver
AllWords Forums   
AllWords Blog     
Help                      
Bookstore            
Advertise             
Copyrights           
Privacy                 
AllWords Search Box
Contact Us           



 

AllWords.com Home
English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

 
  
Your Query of 'doolally tap' Resulted in 1 Matches
Displaying Items 1 through 1
Definitions
doolally tap
noun 
  1. camp fever
  2. madness, eccentric, eccentricity
Etymology: from Deolali, a British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay where British soldiers would stay after finishing their tour of duty, to await transport back to Britain; and tap, a Persian or Urdu word for a malarial fever (ultimately from Sanskrit tapa, meaning "heat" or "torment")

     
 
  

 Find:
  Words Starting With:
  Words Ending With:
  Words Containing:
  Words That Match:
 
 Translate Into:
   Dutch   French   German
   Italian   Spanish

Google
 
Browse the Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 
  

Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License
Allwords Copyright 1998-2008 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.