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jobbie, n. colloq.
Brit. |ˈdʒɒbi|, U.S. |ˈdʒɑbi|
Forms: 19– jobbie, 19– jobby
[‹ job n.2 + -y suffix6.]
1. U.S. A person. Cf. job n.2 8. Now rare.
1902T. A. Dorgan in San Francisco Bull. Mag. 5 Jan. 12 And the jobbie who yells fake after every fight. 1938D. Runyon Take it Easy 180 And no smarter jobbie ever breathes than Haystack when he is out there pitching. 1948N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 20/4 Frantically the manager plunges into his bullpen and comes up with a jobbie who promptly walks a few more before he finds the range.
2. An object, a thing, usually of a type specified by a preceding word. Cf. job n.2 8.
1950Lima (Ohio) News 31 Dec. 3 c/3 Clothes [in 1951] will be gayer by far than 1950 ‘jobbies’. 1954K. Vonnegut Powder-Blue Dragon in Cosmopolitan Nov. 52/2 He looked out over the parking lot. ‘Oho, I see. The little blue jobbie. Ver-ry nice. Gorgeous. And that's yours?’ 1960G. Bluestone Private World Cully Powers v. 85 It's one of these new three-blade jobbies. 1989‘C. Roman’ Foreplay xv. 173, I have coffee with Harry at four in the morning at the grease stop known as Joey's on the corner, a twenty-four-hour jobbie with mirrored walls. 2002Total Guitar Mar. 17/2 (caption) These decidedly Gibson-like jobbies are all part of Squier's new Series 24 range. And don't they look the business?
3. euphem. Freq. in form jobby. = job n.2 9. Also to do a jobby.
1981R. A. Spears Slang & Euphemism 214/2 Jobby, a bowel movement. 1985M. Atwood Handmaid's Tale 182 Do a jobbie, they'd say to children when they were being toilet trained. 1989Picture (Sydney) 17 Oct. 60/2 (headline) Jumbo jobbies make my garden grow... Eileen reveals the secret behind her killer cucumbers—elephant shit! 1993R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1994) 200 Sinbad ran away after he'd flung his sawdust out of his pockets.—He did a jobby. I told them all.—Down his leg. 1998Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 20 Oct. A big thank you..to the wacky Welsh person responsible for depositing the massive jobby in the Ebbw Vale press box. |