Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.234
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.234
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c10.234
**ALLYGOLE, ALIGHOL, ALLYGOOL, ALLEEGOLE**, s. H.—P. *aligol*, from *‘ali* 'lofty, excellent,' Skt. *gola*, a troop; a nondescript word used for "irregular foot in the Maratha service, without discipline or regular arms. According to some they are so named from charging in a dense mass and invoking 'Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed, being chiefly Moham-medans."—(*Wilson.*)