doolally tap
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doolally tap
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From Deolali (the name of a former British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay, used as a transit station for soldiers awaiting transport back to Britain) + tap (from Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “heat; fever”)).
According to one suggestion, to go doolally tap was to go crazy while waiting.
noun doolally-tap
- Camp fever; by extension, madness, eccentricity. Mrrhhhh, nothing wrong with me, sergeant, it's just the old Doolally Tap.
adjective more doolally tap · most doolally tap · doolally-tap
- Mad, insane, eccentric. Going a bit doolally-tap, if you ask me. Getting odd ideas.
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