backsheesh

Everywhere you go you hear the insistent, importunate cry for backsheesh.

"Backsheesh," he intimated, and jingled some coins in his pocket.

In Mohammedan countries, so long as plenty of backsheesh is forthcoming, those in authority ask few questions.

It is therefore advisable to make the first offer very small, and to retain something for the backsheesh.