Talk:khazi

British Army slang?

Kharzi is British Army slang nothing to do with cockneys which is why the cockneys don't use the term. Partridge was an awful fool with a political agenda and a heightened sense of xenophobia.

That's weird because as a born and bred Londoner, I heard the word used frequently.

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Moved out of the entry because it lacks a reference/source: Alternative source: Cockney and/or British Military usage derived from Army experience of dysentery during World War 2 in Libya - Kharzi rhyming with Benghazi.

- -sche (discuss) 16:49, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Etymology

I thought this might be related, when I saw it (in the old Hobson-Jobson dictionary of Anglo-Indian words): "COORSY, […] from Arabic kursī (which is used for the stand on which the Koran is laid). It is the word usually employed in Western India for 'a chair,' […] " Equinox ◑ 00:03, 3 January 2024 (UTC)