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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Hob•son-Job•son (hob′sən job′sən),USA pronunciation n. - Linguisticsthe alteration of a word or phrase borrowed from a foreign language to accord more closely with the phonological and lexical patterns of the borrowing language, as in English hoosegow from Spanish juzgado.
- 1625–35; Anglo-Indian rendering of Arabic yā Ḥasan, yā Husayn lament uttered during ta‘ziyah; an example of such an alteration
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