[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) › c6.41 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.41 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.41 - **Language:** English ### [c6.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.41) Other terms again are corruptions, more or less violent, of Oriental words and phrases which have put on an English mask. Such are maund, fool's rack, bearer, cot, boy, belly-band, Penang-lawyer, buckshaw, goddess (in the Malay region, representing Malay gādis, ‘a maiden’), compound, college-pheasant, chopper, summer-head,\* eagle-wood, jackass-copal, bobbery, Upper Roger (used in a correspondence given by Dalrymple, for Yuva Raja, the ‘Young King,’ or Caesar, of Indo-Chinese monarchies), Isle-o'-Bats (for Allāhābād or Ilahābāz as the natives often call it), hobson-jobson (see Preface), St. John's. The last proper name has at least three applications. There is “St. John's” in Guzerat, viz. Sanjān, the landing-place of the Parsee immigration in the 8th century; there is another “St. John's” which is a corruption of Shang-Chuang, the name of that island off the southern coast of China whence the pure and ardent spirit of Francis Xavier fled to a better world; there is the group of “St. John's Islands” near Singapore, the chief of which is properly Pulo-Sikajang. - [Previous: c6.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.40) - [Next: c6.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.42) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.41) · Pramāṇa