bashaw

American  

[buh-shaw] / bəˈʃɔ /

noun

1. pasha.

2. a person who is important, imperious, or self-important.

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bashaw British  

/ bəˈʃɔː /

noun

1. a rare spelling of pasha

2. an important or pompous person

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Etymology

Origin of bashaw

1525–35; < Arabic bāshā < Turkish pāshā pasha

Example Sentences

They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Billy Rose himself, the unco-smart little bashaw of Broadway, called it "trial by newspaper."

From Time Magazine Archive

But say, Hieronimo:     What then became of him that was the bashaw?

From The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd, Thomas

He could only account for his absence by relating his transformation into a butterfly, of which the bashaw, being blinded to the truth by the glitter of gold, would not believe one word.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Nice girls must always be running after somebody, in the world as the old bashaw saw it.

From Abington Abbey A Novel by Marshall, Archibald