Many readers will at once revert to _pill_, _piller_, and _pillage_--all simply _implying_ attack, but really meaning to _rob_, or robbery.

But _piller_ in English Gipsy also means, as in Hindustani, to assault indecently; and this is almost conclusive as to its Eastern origin.
It is remarkable that the Gipsies in England, or all the world over, have, like the Hindus, a distinctly descriptive expression for every degree of relationship.

Thus a _pivli beebee_ in English Gipsy, or _pupheri bahim_ in Hindustani, is a father's sister's daughter.

This in English, as in French or German, is simply a cousin.
_Quod_, imprisonment, is an old English cant and Gipsy word which Mr Hotten attempts to derive from a college quadrangle; but when we find that the Hindu _quaid_ also means confinement, the probability is that it is to it we owe this singular term.
There are many words in which it is evident that the Hindu Gipsy meaning has been shifted from a cognate subject.

Thus _putti_, the hub of a wheel in Gipsy, means the felly of a wheel in Hindustani.