This special word actually portrays the action of giving someone a dressing down or scolding someone. There is no need to mention the actual noun implied at all. Needless to say, it is a direct translation of the word in multiple Indian languages. It takes the forms 'give' and 'gave'.
Mahima: "What??? How dare that Gowri try to steal your earrings! Thank god you saw it no? Just give her nicely tomorrow!!"

Preeti: "Correct only! Already I gave her properly for using my chappals once and now this! It's so hard to trust anyone these days I tell you."

Root: Multiple  |  Added: 2011-07-08 by Shutup your mouth
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Ambiguous in the context of school or college exams:
To 'give an exam' might mean either of the following:
(a) You are a student writing the exam (typical Indian usage)
(b) You are a teacher conducting the exam (typical Western usage)

In either case, it is the opposite of take.

Student: I'm so nervous, I have to give an exam today but I haven't studied!

Teacher: Pass me that hip flask! I have to give an exam today and I'm not looking forward to shepherding those brats.

Root: English  |  Region: All India  |  Added: 2011-07-06 by Borax Babu
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then, guru, you might also like these!
Uncomplimentary way of referring to vegetarian cuisine. Literally translates to "grass and hay".

Employed mostly by frustrated non-vegetarians when deprived of their daily quota of chicken-shicken and mutton-shutton.

*Famished Sardarji walks into a small restaurant in South India, and is increasingly irritated by the waiter's suggestions on what to eat for lunch*

Sardarji : "Palak paneer? Gobhi manchurian? What is all this ghaas phoos you're suggesting to me? I want some chicken and fish dishes!"

Waiter : "B..b..but sarr, we are 100% Pure Veg A/C restaurant only!"

*Already low on blood sugar, on hearing the words 'Pure Veg', Sardarji faints*

Root: Hindi  |  Region: North India  |  Added: 2011-11-06 by Surdie Birdie
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Abbreviation.
Galiyon ka Badshah. Person who knows his way around the city like the back of his band. He knows all the short-cuts by heart and many of the shortest-cuts in the city are attributed to him. He can take you to places in minimum time, avoiding all traffic signals, jams, greedy cops and chakkas. If you air-drop him blind-folded in any part of the city he will smell his way home and brake before every single speed breaker.
Lom: Abe, take that left . . . whatareyoudoingman??? Now movie is gone beta.
Dabba: Saale LKB, if we'd have taken that turn na we might have run into Nazoo and missed the movie, understood. Ab bol, who's the real GKB.
Root: Hindi  |  Region: All India  |  Added: 2011-11-25 by Oriya Cookie
"Goobe" in Kannada means "An Owl". Its also used to refer a person who is generally Dumb.


Avanobba dodda Goobe.
(He is a big Owl)
Root: Kannada  |  Region: Karnataka  |  Added: 2012-02-18 by Appata Kannadiga
Abbreviation.
Cool dude speak for Girl Friend.
Raghu is a regular dog. Everyone has lost the count of GFs he had...
Root: English  |  Region: Mumbai  |  Added: 2011-08-22 by pee_mmm
Literally an owl, but, unlike the Western equivalent, not a wise one.
A dumbass who cannot find his arse if he searched with both hands. Also see gubé.
Rahul G.: Hey goobay! Do up your fly after going susu.
Root: Kannada  |  Region: Bangalore  |  Added: 2011-07-08 by Bewarsi
Smelly, dirty, usually used in reference to people with body odour.
Thoo! That skinny chick in the cab never takes a bath, full gabbu she is ba...
Root: Kannada  |  Added: 2011-07-12 by 50Paisa
November 28, 2011, Word of the Day
Litearally, an "owl". Idiomatically, a vitriolic insult generally indicative of a fair amount of spite, and scant respect. Not to be used lightly, except between good friends.
(A, driving car, gets severely cut off by B, driving autorickshaw)
A: Hui!! Gubé!
B: (sticks tongue out and points with upturned flat hand, taking no responsibility whatsoever for the transgression)
Root: Kannada  |  Region: Bangalore  |  Added: 2011-06-17 by Studmuffin
Literally, grass, hay, plants and the like.

A person who eats only ghaas phoos is a vegetarian.

Jijo: What do you want for breakfast?

Alok: Chicken, egg and cheese in a croissant.

Jijo: Really? I thought you were a ghaas-phoos kinda guy. Welcome to Kerala.

Root: Hindi  |  Region: All India  |  Added: 2011-09-07 by GoodCumbany
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