Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.214
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.214
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1610.—"These Blackes . . . told me the River was full of Aligatas, and if I saw any I must fight with him, else he would kill me."—*D. Midleton, in Purchas, i. 244.*