Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9179
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9179
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[1820.—“. . . the mangoe fish (so named from its appearing during the mangoe season). . . . By the natives they are named the *Tapasvi* (penitent) fish, (abbreviated by Europeans to *Tipsy*) from their resembling a class of religious penitents, who ought never to shave.”—Hamilton, Des. of Hindostan, i. 58.]