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hobson-jobson

Noun

Meaning

(Anglo-Indian, slang, obsolete) Any Indian religious observance, especially the Muharram.

(linguistics, uncountable) The assimilation of borrowed lexis, either partial or whole, to word forms of the borrowing language.

(linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.
Hypernym: loanword

hobson-jobson (countable and uncountable, plural hobson-jobsons)

Alternative letter-case form of Hobson-Jobson

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