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# Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.42

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c6.42

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### [c6.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c6.42)

Yet again we have hybrids and corruptions of English fully accepted and adopted as Hindustani by the natives with whom we have to do, such as simkin, port-shrāb, brandy-pānī, apil, rasīd, tumlet (a tumbler), gilās (‘glass,’ for drinking vessels of sorts), rail-ghārī, lumber-dār, jail-khāna, bottle-khāna, buggy-khāna, ‘et omne quod exit in’ khāna, including gymkhāna, a very modern concoction (q.v.), and many more.

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