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Word of Indian derivation meaning tea.

Tea the drink, not tea the evening meal for Northern folk or TEA, a much-lamented training allowance of the TA.

For more words plundered from the languages of Empire, see Bunduk, Wallah, Bint, Dhobi and Adoo.

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