Complete Definition of "bashaw"

English
Etymology
Variant of pasha.

Pronunciation
IPA|/b����:/

Noun
en-noun

  1. A pasha.

#:*1809: he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw, and that the world is at his nod. � James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco (London 1809, p. 79)

  1. A grandee; a self-important or arrogant person.

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