zob
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Etymology
Claimed by Swedish scholar Jan Ivarsson (quoted in Green's Dictionary of Slang) to derive from French zob (“dick, cock”), itself from Arabic زُبّ (zubb).[1]
Noun
zob (plural zobs)
- (US, slang, derogatory, dated) A good-for-nothing person.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:worthless person
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section III, pages 415–416:
- And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!
See also
References
- “zob n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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