[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) › c10.482 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.482 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.482 - **Language:** English ### [c10.482](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.482) 1825.—"Arabs are excessively scarce and dear; and one which was sent for me to look at, at a price of 800 rupees, was a skittish, cat-legged thing."—\*Heber\*, i. 189 (ed. 1844). - [Previous: c10.481](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.481) - [Next: c10.483](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.483) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.482](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.482) · Pramāṇa