yob
/jɒb
/noun British informal
A rude, noisy, and aggressive youth.They urged police to crack down on racist yobs before youths took the law into their own hands....
- Most vandals and yobs are created by irresponsible and neglectful parents.
- We have let these people down - the yobs and their yob parents - and now we are paying the price.
Derivatives
yobbish
/ adjective ...- The yobbish city culture takes over when two opposing football clubs meet.
- His 16-year-old daughter Samantha and son Tom, 13, have been caught up in drugs, joyriding and yobbish behaviour.
- It is extremely encouraging the campaign has succeeded in mobilising people to take action against yobbish and anti-social behaviour.
yobbishly
- Am I saying that all yobbishly named wines are awful?
- I had gone out with some girls I'd met and got so drunk that I was yobbishly being sick in the street.
- Last week he was at it again, demanding punishment of the utmost severity for footballers who behave yobbishly on the pitch.
yobbishness
- The clampdown on yobbishness by the youngest pupils is designed to nip the problem in the bud before the children reach secondary school, where teachers face the worst discipline problems.
- The yobbishness of the youth continues to make headlines.
- There has to be an end to the drunken yobbishness which has been a problem in the past.
yobby
- Yobby behaviour is being dealt with.’
- What I hate about the magazine is its yobby tone.
Origin
Mid 19th century: back slang for boy.
This is an example of back slang, in which people say words as though they were spelled backwards. It is a reverse form of boy, and originally, in the mid 19th century, simply meant ‘a boy or youth’. Now a yob is a rude, noisy, or aggressive one.