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jobbernowl colloq.|ˈdʒɒbənəʊl|
Also 6–7 iobbernowle, -noul(e, iobernol(e, 7 job(b)ernoll, 7–9 jobbernol(e, 8 -knowl, 9 (in Dicts.) jabbernowl.
[app. f. jobbard, jobard + noll, OE. hnol, head; but evidence of the historical connexion is incomplete.]
1. A blockish or stupid head; a ludicrous term for the head, usually connoting stupidity.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vi. 200 His guts are in his braines, huge Iobbernoule, Right Gurnets-head. 1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 356 Submit your jobernols to the sacred precepts of Nature. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 815 And, like the World, Men's Jobbernoles Turn round upon their Ears, the Poles. 1794Gifford Baviad (1811) 32 Nothing from thy jobbernowl can spring But impudence and filth. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXII. 480 The Giant, heightened by the ell-long bonnet and feather on his huge jobbernowl.
2. A stupid person, a blockhead.
1592Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. E iv, Gaffer Iobbernoule,..how dost thou? 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. Prol., A certain sneaking jobernol alledged that his [Horace's] verses smelled more of the wine then oile. 1711E. Ward Quix. I. 94 How hard His Brother Jobbernole had far'd. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 512 Ministers, who are regularly called asses,..dunder-pates, jobbernowls. 1890Hall Caine Bondman xx. II. 242 The numbskull!.. The jobbernowl!
3. attrib. or as adj. Stupid, dunderheaded.
1828Examiner 4/2 Misled by the jobbernol applause of an audience. 1838J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xv. 172 Our jobbernowl English..have gone back to their old sport.
Hence ˈjobbernowlism, the condition, or something characteristic, of a jobbernowl; stupidity; a stupid act, remark, etc.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 265 A more sanctified brother, whose zealous jobernolisme would never have affected..Plato, Euclid, or Aristotle. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 289 Gabble pretty jobbernowlisms on the sky gods. |