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NOUN: | I. Simple uses.1. A style of cooking influenced by the cuisine of northern Pakistan, comprising highly spiced dishes usually served in wide, round-bottomed, metal pans and accompanied by nan bread. Also: food or a dish in this style. 1982 Heathan (Balsall Heath, Birmingham) July 8/1 (advt.) Specialists in kebab, tikah, balti meats tandoori chicken and all kinds of curry. II. Compounds. 2. a. General attrib. b.
balti house
, a restaurant specializing in this style of cooking. |
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INTRANSITIVE VERB: |
to lose one's nerve —usually used with out <seemed to exhibit courage, manliness, and conviction when others chickened out — J. R. Seeley | |
ADJECTIVE: | 1 a : scared b : timid, cowardly |
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ETYMOLOGY: | Cookery.
Also with capital initial.
[Origin uncertain and disputed. The word was first used in connection with restaurants chiefly in the area of Birmingham, England, in the early 1980s (cf. quot. 1982; one source claims that that first Balti house opened in 1977, but no printed evidence for this has been found). It is unclear whether there is any antecedent in languages of northern India, Pakistan, or Kashmir; it is not recorded among the many borrowings from these languages in R. J. Baumgartner Eng. Lang. Pakistan (1993). It is widely suggested that the word is derived < Hindi It has also been suggested that the word has some connection with Baltistan (see The predominant British pronunciation with back vowel is perh. after |
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