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Build a Hinglish and Indian English glossary with meanings, examples and origins, then export it as Markdown, CSV or JSON.
A Hinglish glossary is a shared list of Hindi-English blend words and Indian English terms with the meaning each one actually carries in Indian usage, not the dictionary gloss of the source language. This builder starts you with 28 documented entries such as jugaad, prepone, godown, out of station and paisa vasool, lets you add your own campus, team or family words with an example sentence and an origin, and exports the result as a Markdown table, RFC 4180 CSV, JSON or plain text. Editors, onboarding leads and ESL teachers use it to settle what a term means before it appears in a document.
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Every entry carries a meaning, an example sentence, an origin language and a register label.
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Terms are compared after trimming, collapsing spaces and lowercasing, so Jugaad and jugaad cannot both be added.
Hinglish is the mixed register in which Hindi and English are used together in the same sentence or word, from full code-switching to English words with Hindi grammar. It is a spoken norm across urban India rather than a defined dialect, so glossaries differ from group to group, which is why this tool lets you keep your own.
Yes. Prepone, meaning to move an event earlier, is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard in Indian English, though speakers outside South Asia often will not recognise it. Where a document must read the same in London and Bengaluru, write bring forward instead.
It depends on the audience and your organisation's style guide. Terms like out of station, godown and batchmate are widely understood inside India but confuse international readers, while do the needful and passing out read as dated or ambiguous even in India, which is why each entry here carries a register label.
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