Rum-johnny

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  1. 1
    A native who loitered about the wharves of Calcutta seeking employment as a servant with newly arrived Europeans. India, historical

    "At length, one of my own domestics informed me, that he was a Rum-Johnny who had been discharged from my service, in which he held the office of mosaulchy, (or linkboy,) for theft."

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"At length, one of my own domestics informed me, that he was a Rum-Johnny who had been discharged from my service, in which he held the office of mosaulchy, (or linkboy,) for theft."

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