Hobson-Jobson is the well-known title of 'Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive', an historical dictionary of words of Asian origin that were used in colonial British India.It was written by Colonel Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell and published in 1886.