bashi-bazouk

名词 n.
/bæʃɪbəˈzuːk/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An irregular soldier of the Ottoman army, reputed to be undisciplined and brutal.
    — In May 1876 the crisis deepened when Turkish irregular troops, known as bashi-bazouks, put twelve thousand Bulgarian Christians to the sword in a frenzy of blood-letting.

词形变化

bashi-bazouks plural bashibazouk alternative

词源

From Turkish başıbozuk, from Ottoman Turkish باشی بوزوق (“an irregular soldier”). Literally, “broken-head”.
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