The word Gullu associated with the colourful character Gullu Butt of the model town incident fame has been given a meaning of “disruptive behavior of someone enjoying (good or bad) backing of the ruling/powerful segments of society”.
The Lahori linguist Syed Shamim Azam, wrote to Oxford Dictionary to add the word Gullu in their upcoming version of the dictionary which is going to be available in Pakistan and India.
On which the publishers replied that “if the term achieves enormous currency with a wide audience in a much shorter space of time, and people expect to find the new ‘high-profile’ word in their dictionaries, it is sure to be included in the dictionary”.
* Photo “Pakistan Tribune.com”
