英语词汇“Hobson-Jobson”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Hobson-Jobson

释义

Hobson-Jobson /hobˈsən-jobˈsən/

noun

Festal excitement, esp at the Moharram ceremonies
The modification of names and words introduced from foreign languages, which the popular ear assimilates to already familiar sound, as in the case of the word Hobson-Jobson itself

ORIGIN: Ar Yā Hasan, Yā Hosain a typical phrase of Anglo-Indian argot at the time adopted as an alternative title for Yule and Burnell's Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases (1886)

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