[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) › c6.31 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.31 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.31 - **Language:** English ### [c6.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.31) Southern India has contributed to the Anglo-Indian stock words that are in hourly use also from Calcutta to Peshawur (some of them already noted under another cleavage), e.g. betel, mango, jack, cheroot, mungoose, pariah, bandicoot, teak, patcharee, chatty, catechu, tope (‘a grove’), curry, mulligatawny, congee. Mamooty (a digging tool) is familiar in certain branches of the service, owing to its having long had a place in the nomenclature of the Ordnance department. It is Tamil, \*manvētti\*, ‘earth-cutter.’ Of some very familiar words the origin remains either dubious, or matter only for conjecture. Examples are \*hackery\* (which arose apparently in Bombay), \*florican\*, \*topaz\*. - [Previous: c6.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.30) - [Next: c6.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.32) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.31) · Pramāṇa