Contextualizebeta

puncture-wallah

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who repairs punctured tyres.

    • […] by the simple ploy of knocking on the door of his unsuspecting friend just when he was about to doze off for the post-prandial siesta, soliciting a paltry half-rupee to pay the puncture-wallah.
    • There are plenty of puncture-wallahs in all towns and villages who will patch tubes for a couple of rupees, so chances are you won't have to fix a puncture yourself anyway.
    • Luckily, if you get a flat tyre, puncture-wallahs can be found almost everywhere.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for puncture-wallah. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA