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wallah

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Noun
 : 
wal=lah

CIDE DICTIONARY

wallahn. 
     A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wallah, n. orig. Anglo-Ind., now sl.
1 a person concerned with or in charge of a usu. specified thing, business, etc. (asked the ticket wallah).
2 a person doing a routine administrative job; a bureaucrat.

Etymology
Hindi -wala suffix = -ER(1)

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