Sentence:  A <WSD>Hobson-Jobson</WSD> turns a difficult word or phrase into something more tractable (or perhaps less offensive). By that route, a Texas river that French trappers had named Purgatoire became the Picketwire, and the Malay word "kampong" became the English word "compound". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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.