Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.

After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.

Abandoning its original application, then, let us use babu English, or babuism, as a general term to mean discourse in which the speaker (or writer) throws around learned words he does not understand in order to create a favorable impression. Babuism probably has existed and will continue to exist in every culture in which there is a learned class of magicians, shamans, priests, teachers, and other professional verbalizers with big vocabularies.

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.