[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) › c10.542 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.542 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.542 - **Language:** English ### [c10.542](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.542) 1627.—"Java hath been fatal to many of the English, but much through their own distemper with Rack."—Purchas, Pilgrimage, 693. 1848.—"Jos . . . finally insisted upon having a bowl of rack punch . . . That bowl of rack punch was the cause of all this history."—Vanity Fair, ch. vi. - [Previous: c10.541](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.541) - [Next: c10.543](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.543) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.542](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.542) · Pramāṇa