English Explanatory Dictionary

Gunga Din

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A water carrier (person employed to carry water).
  2. A person who selflessly serves another.

Word forms

Gunga Din Gunga Dins

Etymology

From an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling about an Indian water-carrier, Gunga Din, who saves a wounded soldier before being killed, remembered for its closing line: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."

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