Ditcher

See also: ditcher

English

Etymology

From Ditch +‎ -er.

Noun

Ditcher (plural Ditchers)

1. (Anglo-Indian, slang, derogatory, obsolete) A European resident of Calcutta.
   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:

     The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it. Hasn't any kind friend told you that she's the most dangerous woman in Simla?”

References

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “Ditcher”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].