Sais
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /saɪs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sais is a noun meaning (Malaya, dated) usually syce: chauffeur, driver.
Meaning
(Malaya, dated) usually syce: chauffeur, driver.
More Meanings
- Used to represent a nonstandard pronunciation of says.
- (chiefly India) A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses.
Example Sentences
4th Troop 1st Brigade—3 rank and file, 1 syce, 17 horses, killed; […]
Then all trace of him was lost, until a sais met me on Simla Mall with this extraordinary note:— […]
Dinner, dinner, dinner … but when he returned to the house for it, Mahmoud Ali had drifted away in his turn, to speak to his sais.
But apart from the story of the havildar, my own syce, a hillman who attends my pony, has actually seen two ghosts, with one of whom he held a long conversation.
Word Forms
- saises
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include que, know, chi, groom, jilaudar, sowar.
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