单词 | yob |
释义 | yobn. slang and colloquial (chiefly British, Australian, and New Zealand) 1. Chiefly English regional (London). A boy, a youth; (later also) a man, a ‘bloke’. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] youngeOE younglingOE girlc1300 youtha1325 young onec1384 birdc1405 young person1438 young blood1557 primrosea1568 slip1582 juvenal1598 quat1607 airling1611 egga1616 saplinga1616 chita1657 a slip of a girla1660 juvenile1733 young adult1762 boots1806 snip1838 spring chicken1857 yob1859 kid1884 chiseller1922 juvenile adult1926 YA1974 yoof1986 the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 131 Yob, a boy. 1867 Era 20 Oct. 6/4 Mr Vance, in the character of the ‘Chickaleary Bloke’, called the gentleman in the gallery a ‘yob’, and..advised him to ‘turn it up’. 1894 A. R. Marshall in Sporting Times 29 Dec. 1/4 And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob. 1908 A. 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. 1912 E. Pugh City of World 268 A smasher..is a coiner..a yob that manufactures spurious money. 1917 New Statesman 25 Aug. 489/1 On the whole..there is little fun to be got from calling a penny a ‘yennep’ or a boy a ‘yob’. 2. Chiefly Australian, New Zealand (depreciative). A fool; a naive, gullible, or unintelligent person. Also: an unsophisticated person; a country bumpkin. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] dizzyc825 cang?c1225 foolc1225 apec1330 mopc1330 saddle-goosec1346 mis-feelinga1382 foltc1390 mopec1390 fona1400 buffardc1430 fopc1440 joppec1440 fonda1450 fondlinga1450 insipienta1513 plume of feathers1530 bobolynec1540 dizzard1546 Little Witham?1548 nodc1563 dawkin1565 cocknel1566 nigion1570 niddicock1577 nodcock1577 cuckoo1581 Jack with the feather1581 niddipol1582 noddyship?1589 stirkc1590 fonkin1591 Gibraltar1593 fopper1598 noddypeak1598 coxcombry1600 simple1600 gowka1605 nup1607 fooliaminy1608 silly ass1608 dosser-head1612 dor1616 glow-worm1624 liripipea1625 doodle1629 sop1637 spalt1639 fool's head1650 buffle1655 Jack Adams1656 bufflehead1659 nincompoopc1668 bavian1678 nokes1679 foolanea1681 cod1699 hulver-head1699 nigmenog1699 single ten1699 mud1703 dowf1722 foolatum1740 silly billy1749 tommy noddy1774 arsec1785 nincom1800 silly1807 slob1810 omadhaun1818 potwalloper1820 mosy1824 amadan1825 gump1825 gype1825 oonchook1825 prawn1845 suck-egg1851 goosey1852 nowmun1854 pelican1856 poppy-show1860 buggerlugs1861 damfool1881 mudhead1882 yob1886 peanut head1891 haggis bag1892 poop1893 gazob1906 mush1906 wump1908 zob1911 gorm1912 goof1916 goofus1916 gubbins1916 dumb cluck1922 twat1922 B.F.1925 goofer1925 bird brain1926 berk1929 Berkeley1929 Berkeley Hunt1929 ding1929 loogan1929 stupido1929 poop-stick1930 nelly1931 droop1932 diddy1933 slappy1937 goof ball1938 get1940 poon1940 tonk1941 clot1942 yuck1943 possum1945 gobdaw1947 momo1953 nig-nog1953 plonker1955 weenie1956 nong-nong1959 Berkshire Hunt1960 balloon1965 doofus1965 dork1965 nana1965 shit-for-brains1966 schmoll1967 tosspot1967 lunchbox1969 doof1971 tonto1973 dorkus1979 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 wally1980 wally brain1981 der-brain1983 langer1983 numpty1985 sotong1988 fanny1995 fannybaws2000 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe foola1382 woodcockc1430 geckc1530 cousinc1555 cokes1567 milch cow1582 gudgeon1584 coney1591 martin1591 gull1594 plover1599 rook1600 gull-finch1604 cheatee1615 goata1616 whirligig1624 chouse1649 coll1657 cully1664 bubble1668 lamb1668 Simple Simon?1673 mouth1680 dupe1681 cull1698 bub1699 game1699 muggins1705 colour1707 milk cow1727 flat1762 gulpin1802 slob1810 gaggee1819 sucker1838 hoaxee1840 softie1850 foozle1860 lemon1863 juggins1882 yob1886 patsy1889 yapc1894 fall guy1895 fruit1895 meemaw1895 easy mark1896 lobster1896 mark1896 wise guy1896 come-on1897 pushover1907 John1908 schnookle1908 Gretchen1913 jug1914 schnook1920 soft touch1924 prospect1931 steamer1932 punter1934 dill1941 Joe Soap1943 possum1945 Moreton Bay1953 easy touch1959 1886 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald 24 Apr. 2/7 His trip..was thus grievously marred by a ‘yob’, who ought to have been ‘keel-hauled’. 1904 Truth (Sydney) 2 Oct. 4/5 (headline) Yanks v. ‘Yobs’. Slick scheme to swindle ‘suckers’. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 311 Yob, anyone easily made a fool of. 1932 Auckland Star 22 June 19/3 He was a yob, a hay-seed. 1941 Australasian 7 June 44/2 You never saw such a yob—aye, ‘yob’ is the only word that describes him. Charles becomes her abject slave. 1996 S. Moylan Lang. Kilkenny 290 Yob, a foolish, credulous, or stupidly gullible person. 3. Originally British (depreciative). A youth who behaves in an uncouth, aggressive, or antisocial way; a lout, a hooligan.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person bearc1395 carter1509 kensy?a1513 clumpertonc1534 club1542 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 clown1583 hoyden1593 boor1598 kill-courtesy1600 rustic1600 clunch1602 loblolly1604 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 rough diamonda1625 hoyde1636 clodhopper1699 roughhead1726 indelicate1741 vulgarian1809 snob1838 vulgarist1847 yahoo1861 cave-dweller1865 polisson1866 mucker1884 caveman1907 wampus1912 yobbo1922 yenta1923 yob1927 rude1946 cafone1949 no-neck1961 ocker1971 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person > youth cuba1616 yob1927 1927 J. C. Goodwin Crook Pie iii. 71 A yob shouted: ‘Now for yer belts, boys!’ and my friend was thrashed. 1957 J. 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?’ 1977 Western 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.’ 2015 Paisley Daily Express (Nexis) 16 Feb. 9 Police have launched a crackdown on anti-social yobs who take drugs, guzzle alcohol and urinate in public. Compounds yob culture n. a way of life characterized by aggressive and antisocial behaviour. ΚΠ 1977 Time & Tide 1 Oct. 18/4 When a fellow lecturer..gets drunk and begins to lecture journalists and players on Soccer as the Quintessence of Yob-Culture. 2006 Teen Now Spring 79/4 Should they bring back national service?.. I think it'd get rid of yob culture and people hanging around on street corners. Derivatives ˈyobbery n. [compare earlier yobbism n.] behaviour characteristic of a yob or yobs; loutishness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] outragec1300 outrakea1400 storming1461 outrageousty1485 outraying1487 ruffianry1583 ruffianism1589 thuggery1838 thuggism1859 mayhem1870 hooliganism1898 rough stuff1913 yobbism1969 yobbery1973 1973 Spectator 28 July 116/4 The kind of stodgy British yobbery as much in evidence at the Cavalry Club as throwing out time at the Pickled Pig. 1984 Listener 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. 2014 Salisbury Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 Dec. There is a regrettable amount of drink-fuelled yobbery in Salisbury. ˈyobby adj. of or relating to a yob or yobs; typical of a yob or yobs; esp. uncouth and aggressive; loutish.In quot. 1910: foolish, gullible (cf. sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined boistousc1300 untheweda1325 uplandisha1387 unaffiled1390 rudea1393 knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 clubbedc1440 blunt1477 lob?1507 robust1511 borel1513 carterly1519 clubbish1530 rough?1531 rustical?1532 incondite1539 agrestc1550 rusticc1550 brute1555 lobcocka1556 loutisha1556 carterlike1561 boorish1562 ruggedc1565 lobbish1567 loutlike1567 sowish1570 clownish1581 unrefined1582 impolished1583 homespun1590 transalpinea1592 swaddish1593 unpolished1594 untutored1595 swabberly1596 tartarous1602 porterly1603 lobcocked1606 lob-like1606 cluster-fisted1611 agrestic1617 inurbane1623 unelevated1627 incult1628 unbrushed1640 vulgar1643 unhewed1644 unsmooth1648 hirsute1658 loutardly1658 unhewn1659 roughsome?c1660 sordid1668 inhumanea1680 coarse1699 brutal1709 ramgunshoch1721 tramontane1740 uncouth1740 no-nationa1756 unurbane1760 turnipy1792 rudas1802 common1804 cubbish1819 clodhopping1828 vulgarian1833 cloddish1844 unkempt1846 bush1851 vulgarish1860 rodney1866 crude1876 ignorant1886 yobby1910 nekulturny1932 oikish1959 yobbish1966 ocker1972 down and dirty1977 1910 N. Z. Truth 5 Feb. 4/8 Lighten a man's pocket and then tell him how glad he ought to be that the Yobby Men's Cadging Association was good enough to do it for him. 1955 E. 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. 1982 E. North Anc. Enemies ii. 19 The boys, although none of them as individuals are that dim or yobby, jeered. 2013 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. He exploited his football- and sex-obsessed yobby side until laddism went out of fashion and then started talking about his sensitive opera-going side. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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