September 15, 2005

Your aunty is showing

First it was low-slung chaddi-revealing jeans. Now there's another mention of unmentionables in the current issue of Time Out Mumbai:

Cha-bra
A compound noun formed by joining the syllables cha and bra. Rhymes with sir. Shorthand for chaddi-bra, it's a Marathi synonym for lingerie.
Usage: Chee. All you see on page 3 is skinny models going to parties wearing only cha-bra.
Who writes this stuff anyway? Some Maharashtrian tai with an underwear fetish?

5 comments:

km said...

Cha-Bra rhymes with "SIR"?? You mean like "Cha-bir"?

Pray, explain, good sir.

Krishna

R Devraj said...

Marathi and Hindi abbreviations use syllables, not single letters, so chaddi-bra is abbreviated as च.ब्र. Say it out loud.

km said...

Comprehendo, Senor D.

Cha-Br sounds like some mythical creature like Chtulu.

Krishna

Prerona said...

sounds grosser than tippanni. i dont like that word, somehow :)

chabra sounds harder to say (properly) than zhhabree.

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