(Anglo-Indian, slang, obsolete) Any Indian religious observance, especially the Muharram.
‘You must be moped to death in this dull place; and next week is Hobson Jobson. Can’t you throw some dust any how, in the eyes of the cat, and meet me and Philip somewhere, and so get away to the Tamacha.’
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(linguistics, uncountable) The assimilation of borrowed lexis, either partial or whole, to word forms of the borrowing language.
Falaun, s. gradually, by a process of Hobson-Jobson, this was turned into Forlorn.
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(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.
If the French for pun, calembour, derives (as Spitzer maintained) from "conundrum"; this points up well the at first puzzling effect of such devices. ''Caran d'Ache'' is in fact an intentional hobson-jobson.
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