Chapter BUGGALOW to BUGIS of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

Rada Bazar. A Phaeton, a four-spring’d Buggy, and a two-spring’d ditto.…”—Calcutta Gazette, in Seton- Karr, i. 41.

1793.—“For sale. A good Buggy and Horse.…”—Bombay Courier, Jan. 20th.

1824.—“… the Archdeacon’s buggy and horse had every appearance of issuing from the back-gate of a college in Cambridge on Sunday morning.”—Heber, i. 192 (ed. 1844).

[1837.—“The vehicles of the place (Monghir), amounting to four Buggies (that is a foolish term for a cabriolet, but as it is the only vehicle in use in India, and as buggy is the only name for said vehicle, I give it up), … were assembled for our use.”—Miss Eden, Up the Country, i. 14.]

c. 1838.—“But substitute for him an average ordinary, uninteresting Minister: obese, dumpy … with a second-rate wife —dusty, deliquescent— … or let him be seen in one of those Shem-Ham-and-Japhet buggies, made on Mount Ararat soon after the subsidence of the waters.…”—Sydney Smith, 3rd Letter to Archdeacon Singleton.

1848.—“ ‘Joseph wants me to see if his— his buggy is at the door.’

“ ‘What is a buggy, papa?’

“ ‘It is a one-horse palanquin,’ said the old gentleman, who was a wag in his way.” —Vanity Fair, ch. iii.

1872.—“He drove his charger in his old buggy.”—A True Reformer, ch. i.

1878.—“I don’t like your new Bombay buggy. With much practice I have learned to get into it, I am hanged if I can ever get out.”—Overland Times of India, 4th Feb.

1879.—“Driven by that hunger for news which impels special correspondents, he had actually ventured to drive in a ‘spider,’ apparently a kind of buggy, from the Tugela to Ginglihovo.”—Spectator, May 24th.

BUGIS, n.p. Name given by the Malays to the dominant race of the island of Celébes, originating in the S.-Western limb of the island; the people calling themselves Wugi. But the name used to be applied in the Archipelago to native soldiers in European service, raised in any of the islands. Compare the analogous use of Telinga (q.v.) formerly in India.

[1615.—“All these in the kingdom of Macassar … besides Bugies, Mander and Tollova.”—Foster, Letters, iii. 152.]

1656.—“Thereupon the Hollanders resolv’d to unite their forces with the Bouquises, that were in rebellion against their Soveraign.”—Tavernier, E. T. ii. 192.

1688.—“These Buggasses are a sort of warlike trading Malayans and mercenary soldiers of India. I know not well whence they come, unless from Macassar in the Isle of Celebes.”—Dampier, ii. 108.

[1697.—“… with the help of Buggesses. …”—Hedges, Diary, Hak. Soc. ii. cxvii.]

1758.—“The Dutch were commanded by Colonel Roussely, a French soldier of fortune. They consisted of nearly 700 Europeans, and as many buggoses, besides country troops.” —Narr. of Dutch attempt in Hoogly, in Malcolm’s Clive, ii. 87.

1783.—“Buggesses, inhabitants of Celebes.” —Forrest, Voyage to Mergui, p. 59.

1783.—“The word Buggess has become among Europeans consonant to soldier, in the east of India, as Sepoy is in the West.” —Ibid. 78.

1811.—“We had fallen in with a fleet of nine Buggese prows, when we went out towards Pulo Mancap.”—Lord Minto in India, 279.

1878.—“The Bugis are evidently a distinct race from the Malays, and come originally from the southern part of the Island of Celebes.”—McNair, Perak, 130.