Badmash

I don't think he's a badmash. His hands are like a manual worker's.

‘However big a badmash one is – if one's happy in consequence, that's some justification.’

Once the five had left for the village, the Dutchman had immediately begun working on the badmash who had stood up to the havildar.

His wife laughed. “You'll see purdahs when we reach Port Said.” “And a bazaar?” “That's a market!” “Who's a badmash?” “A bad man is called a badmash. I'm not a badmash. Am I?”