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yob slang.|jɒb|
[Backslang for boy n.1]
Orig. simply, a boy, a youth; in mod. use, a lout, a hooligan; (see also quot. 1918).
1859Hotten Dict. Slang 131 Yob, a boy. 1886–96in Farmer & Henley Slang (1903) VII. 375/1 And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob. 1908A. M. N. Lyons Arthur's ii. i. 108 It'd take more'n a yob in a squash 'at to call me a blighted sooper. 1918Farrow Dict. Milit. Terms 673 Yob, a slang term used by soldiers meaning an officer or one who is easily fooled. 1927J. C. Goodwin Crook Pie iii. 71 A yob shouted: ‘Now for yer belts, boys!’ and my friend was thrashed. 1930P. MacDonald Link 130 Well, sir, I sez to meself, what does A do? Then I thinks, keep the mob off. So I jest backs into the door of the public, and doesn't let any of the yobs get out. 1957J. Osborne Look Back in Anger i. 15 ‘Let's go to the pictures.’.. ‘And have my enjoyment ruined by the Sunday night yobs in the front row?’ 1962J. Wain Strike Father Dead vii. 303 If you're expecting a description of what those yobs did to us, please forget it. 1977Western Morning News 30 Aug. 1/3 One police officer sheltering from a bombardment of missiles behind a plastic shield said: ‘It's just a bunch of yobs.’ 1984Times 16 Feb. 3/1, I would not want anybody looking at me to think this man is a thick, stupid, illiterate yob.
Hence ˈyobbery, hooliganism; ˈyobbish a. characteristic of a yob; ˈyobby a., loutish.
1955E. Blishen Roaring Boys iv. 210 Though I don't hold with Grimes' yobby way of dressing, I think the Edwardian style's a good thing in itself. 1972Guardian 16 Feb. 12/1 The 16-year-old boy..was..adopting a yobbish air which drove his mother into nerve-twanging tantrums. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Mar. 215/2 A comparative study of urban adolescent vandalism and upper-class yobbery. 1980Observer 9 Nov. 12/4 It is one thing to deplore the collective yobbery of Mr. Benn's supporters. 1982E. North Ancient Enemies ii. 19 The boys, although none of them as individuals are that dim or yobby, jeered. 1984Listener 27 Sept. 22/1 A club with one of the worst records for drunken yobbery, Tottenham Hotspur,..brazenly makes a deal with the makers of Holstein lager. 1984Sunday Tel. 2 Dec. 20/6 The loony Left should not be confused with that other Left which has been described as the Left of the yobbish tendency.
Add: ˈyobbishly adv.; ˈyobbishness n.
1985Observer 15 Dec. 44/7 That was the sum total of the day's yobbishness. 1987Daily Tel. 16 May 9/4 A drawing..shows a dull, scruffy couple, puffing yobbishly on cigarettes in a dingy sitting-room. 1991Daily Express 1 June 26/6 If he could curb his lapses into yobbishness, he'd be even better. |