Hobson-Jobson
(Anglo-Indian, slang, obsolete) Any Indian religious observance, especially the Muharram.
Definitions
(Anglo-Indian, slang, obsolete) Any Indian religious observance, especially the Muharram.
Comments
(linguistics, uncountable) The assimilation of borrowed lexis, either partial or whole, to word forms of the borrowing language.
Falaun, s. gradually, by a process of Hobson-Jobson, this was turned into Forlorn.
Comments
(linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.
If the French for pun, calembour, derives (as Spitzer maintained) from "conundrum"; this points up well the at first puzzling effect of such devices. ''Caran d'Ache'' is in fact an intentional hobson-jobson.
Comments
Have a better definition?
Add your own interpretation of "Hobson-Jobson".
🗺️About Regional & Other slang
Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
See all Regional & Other slang on Slangora.
Tags
Other words near "Hobson-Jobson" (H)
Browse all slang words starting with H.
Related terms
People also read
Semantically related
- 61%
(British, obsolete) An owl.
- 58%
(India, dated, British, _, military, _, slang) A formal refusal.
- 58%
British vulgar slang for an act of fellatio. 'Gob' is British slang for mouth, so a gob job is literally a mouth-job — direct, unambiguous, and crude in register. It is firmly informal and sexual, used in the same register as comparable terms in British vernacular.