दुताडा

A dictionary, Marathi and English

Applied to a stern, rigorous, inexorable fellow sent to dun or make some demand; a rude and insisting messenger. See धुताडा Sig. II. The two words, although affirmed by some to be but two forms, are certainly of different origin, even of the origin respectively assigned; for this is never used in the sense given under that, and that but seldom, and then, under allowance, in the sense ascribed to this.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

 पु. ( तिरस्कारार्थी ) सावकार , सरकार इ० काने तगादा लावण्यासाठी कुळाकडे पाठविलेला उद्धट , त्रासदायक दूत . धुताडा पहा . [ दूत = निरोप नेणारा + डा निंदार्थी प्रत्यय ]