| 释义 |
ˈhob-job, n. dial. and slang.
[? f. Hob n.1 1 + job.]
orig. A clumsy unskilled job; hence app. a job of unskilled work, an odd job. Hence hob-job v., hob-jobber, hob-jobbing.
1857Wright Prov. Dict., Hob-job, a clumsy job. 1873B. Waugh Gaol Cradle 123 ‘Hob-jobbing’, to use the vividly descriptive phrase of his class in life, through thirteen months the lad somehow managed to appease..the cravings of nature. Ibid., Days came in which there was a hob⁓jobber's famine; no horses to hold, no parcels to carry. Ibid. 133 Every day not less than seventy thousand boys and girls are actually ‘hob-jobbing about’, utterly helpless, until they hob-job into gaols, penitentiaries, reformatories. |