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Pan(d)shood - what does it really mean?Interest forums / Speaking in Tongues | ||
Panshood/Pandshood/Panshuud is an Indian (Hindi?) expletive which is also used by some Pakistanis and I guess Bangladeshis too (I never got my head around to who was from where exactly because to me they were all British first and foremost). Today I watched the movie Slumdog Millionaire and this expletive is also used quite frequently, so I wondered what it really means. I think it is used instead of the f word, but I wonder if there's more to it? | ||
Could this be 'bahin kachut'? Apparently it's a common (and vulgar) term of abuse, which found its way into British soldiers' slang as 'barnshoot'. This is from Wordorigins.org:
I first met it in "Nightrunners of Bengal", a novel about the Indian rebellion of 1857 by John Masters. | 1 | |
Well, to be frank,you would find people from the Indian Sub-Continent (I am from India) use this word quite frequently. And as with every slang, its not said or taken as seriously as it would actually mean. | 2 | |