"Mumbai lingo is a bit different. There’s a lot of Hindi slang and it’s mostly abusive, but used a lot in the modeling circuit. [A fairly common term here] is ‘bombay docks’, used when a girl has bad body odour." (Mumbai model Sahil Shroff quoted in The slang bang! by Reshma Arya, DNA, December 4, 2006)
Via Laudator Temporis Acti, a quote from Iris Origo’s Leopardi: A Study in
Solitude: His interest in his own language, which had begun during his
philologi...
