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General Slang
dhobi
· noun · military
Laundry — wash day, forces style.
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Laundry. Your washing, the act of doing it, or the place it happens. Still in active use in the Navy and Marines — 'dhobi day' is wash day.
“I've got a week's worth of dhobi to get through before kit inspection.”
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'Dhobi wallah' — the laundryman himself, originally the Indian washerman attached to a regiment or ship.
“Drop your blues with the dhobi wallah, he'll have them back by Friday.”
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'Dhobi itch' — fungal rash (jock itch / tinea cruris), blamed on poorly rinsed laundry in hot climates.
“Three weeks in the jungle and half the platoon's got dhobi itch.”
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dhobi In A Sentence
I've got a week's worth of dhobi to get through before kit inspection.
Drop your blues with the dhobi wallah, he'll have them back by Friday.
Three weeks in the jungle and half the platoon's got dhobi itch.
Origin & Usage
Hindi 'dhobi' (धोबी) — the traditional Indian caste of washermen. Absorbed by the British Indian Army and Royal Navy in the 19th century and carried home as standard kit slang.
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