[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.261 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.261 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.261 - **Language:** English ### [c10.261](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.261) 1839.—“... A sort of good-natured housekeeper-like bodies, who talk only of ayahs and amahs, and bad nights, and babies, and the advantages of Hodgson’s ale while they are nursing: seeming in short devoted to \*suckling fools and chronicling small beer\*.”—\*Letters from Madras\*, 294. See also p. 106. - [Previous: c10.260](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.260) - [Next: c10.262](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.262) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.261](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.261) · Pramāṇa