Usually refers to a woman representing the ideal catch for the contemporary Indian male. Ahh the good fortune of finding Seethalakshmi (alias Lexi)! She speaks the vernacular, she toasts the coconut before putting it in the keerai kootu, touches periamma's feet at all family functions, and knows how to sport a 9-yard in the 40*C swelter of Chennai. But in the privacy of youthful company she knocks back the Old Monk Rum and Thumbs Up as she explains how Kegels enhance the female orgasm. Woof!

School kids in India learn to say the numerical table with the help of this little word. It would roughly translate into 'are'.

Step one: Procure a bright orange plastic bucket with steel handle from Chickpet
Step two: Procure one number plastic mug from same shop asking for discount on the strength of having just purchased a bucket.
Step three: Go home and on the geyser.
Step four: Old geyser? Wait one hour minimum.
Step five: Place bucket under tap and fill half with piping hot water. Now run cold water, testing frequently until it is just a little too hot to touch.
Step six: Get nanga and have off one bucket bath! What joy!

Hint: Once you have soaped your armpits and need to pour water and wash simultaneously, you will realize that you have to hold the mug in the same hand as the pit you are attempting to wash and rely on the adhesion between water and skin to dribble the water down the length of your raised arm while you splash and wash with the other.

Catch-all phrase implying a polite, persistent request or order (depending on context) to "do what is required". The issue is that what is required or "needful" is usually left unspecified or vaguely specified at best.

Originally derived from the digga pronunciation of the English word "love", it has now wholly eclipsed the English word in usage and meaning.

Now it is a Kannada slang word meaning "romantic intent" but carrying more suggestive overtones. Road-side Romeos distinguish this word from a similar yet orthogonal word dau which means "lustful intent" and is more anatomical in execution.

The gap between lau and dau is the saga of frustruated youth in Bangalore.

The daily act of washing your hair. If youre part of a Mallu household, please put kawkanut oil before performing this sacred act? God will bless you with smiling relatives & meen molly till the day you die. And by dhi bye. Summerwinterorspring, it can be had ONLY with cold water. No shamboo. Hot water pouring on head, shamboo, tarrki towel...all that is for North Indians.

Most Mallus (like my Dad) will also aggressively recommend it as an all-in-all solution to yeach and yevry problem on the planet..

Eggzampals I am giwing wait-

1) Have a cold molu? Haav eh headbath! *snapping fingers tik tik* like THAT it will go, like THAT! (Dont forget to rub raasnadi podi on yuvar thala afterwards..)
2) Tired? Have a headbath (Dont forget to rub raasnadi podi on yuvar thala afterwards..)
3) Cuff? Have headbath. (Dont forget to rub raasnadi podi on yuvar thala afterwards..)
4) Too much homurkk you had today? Have headbath, it will cool your head
5) *Dad in whisper* Mummy is screeeeeming from morning. Muniyamma got one dose, I also got (for me anyway neththing new), now you. We should send her for one headbath after applying nellikka-thaLam*!! Kheekheekhee!!
6) Saddam Hussain invaded Kuwait? Ayyo, silly fellow. Kennot kundrol his tember. Should have daiiily 5 times headbath
7) Global warming? Everybody, form a headbath queue!!
8) *Nellikka Thalam is an Ayurvedic thingy made of gooseberries. It has mendal-problem-curing-properties it simms. Did I hear 'mendal problem'? Headbath will cure that also!

Okay, sometimes I exagg, but you get my drift no?

An enthu cutlet is an earnest eager beaver who is able to muster up inordinate amounts of energy, inspiration and enthusiasm towards a variety of things. Good enthu cutlets organize parties, arrive early at a movie theatre to buy everyone tickets and enter words in Samosapedia. Bad enthu cutlets become politicians and local demagogues.

Bengal's most sensational contribution to men's fashion. Similar in shape to a balaclava, though leaving more of the face exposed, hence lending the wearer a marked resemblance to the common rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). Traditionally worn to commemorate the advent of autumn in Calcutta, and on any other occasion where the temperature drops below 20 degrees centigrade. Extremely effective in protecting the Bengali male from his natural enemy: cold weather.

A phrase that's used to mean "Apparently" or "I am given to believe", it's generally uttered with incredulity.

Extreme hyperbole to suggest that someone expressed shock or was surprised.