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English
Etymology
From Ditch + -er.
Noun
Ditcher (plural Ditchers)
- (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?”
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