Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9: Corrigenda
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9
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Corrigenda
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PAGE. COL. 32 *b.*—**Apollo Bunder.** Mr. S. M. Edwardes (*History of Bombay, Town and Island, Census Report, 1901*, p. 17) derives this name from ‘Pallav Bandar,’ ‘the Harbour of Clustering Shoots.’
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274 *a.*—**Crease.** 1817. “the Portuguese commander requested permission to see the Cross which Janiere wore. . . .”—*Rev. R. Fellowes, History of Ceylon*, chap. v. quoted in 9 ser. *N. & Q.* I. 85.
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276 *b.*—For “Porus” read “Portus.”
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380 *b.*—For “It is probable that what that geographer . . .” read “It is probable from what . . .”
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499 *b.*—The reference to **Bao** was accidentally omitted. The word is Peguan *bā* (pronounced *bā-a*), “a monastery.” The quotation from Sangermano (p. 88) runs : “There is not any village, however small, that has not one or more large wooden houses, which are a species of convent, by the Portuguese in India called **Bao**.”
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511 *a.*—For “**Adawlvt**” read “**Adawlat**.”
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565 *a.*—Mr. Edwardes (*op. cit.* p. 5) derives **Mazagong** from Skt. *matsya-grāma*, “fish-village,” due to “the pungent odour of the fish, which its earliest inhabitants caught, dried and ate.”
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655 *b.*—For “Steven’s” read “Stevens’.”
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678 *a.*—Mr. Edwardes (*op. cit.* p. 15) derives **Parell** from *padel*, “the Tree-Trumpet Flower” (*Bignonia suaveolens*).
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816 *a.*—For “*shā-bāsh*” read “*shāh-bāsh*.”
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858 *b.*—For “**Sowar**” read “**Sonar**, a goldsmith.”
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920 *b.*—**Tiffin** add : 1784.—“Each temperate day With health glides away, No **Triffings** * our forenoons profane.” —*Memoirs of the Late War in Asia, by An Officer of Colonel Baillie’s Detachment*, ii. *Appendix*, p. 293.
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1802.—“I suffered a very large library to be useless whence I might have extracted that which would have been of more service to me than running about to **Tiffins** and noisy parties.”—*Metcalfe*, to J. W. Sherer, in Kaye, *Life of Lord Metcalfe*, I. 81.
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∗ [In note “Luncheons.”]