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Misshapen vs Jobbernowl - What's the difference?

misshapen | jobbernowl |

As an adjective misshapen

is having a bad or ugly form; deformed; malformed.

As a noun jobbernowl is

a person's head, particularly if misshapen or blocky.

misshapen

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bad or ugly form; deformed; malformed.

    • jobbernowl

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person's head, particularly if misshapen or blocky.
  • * 1532 , François Rabelaism, Gargantua and Pantagruel, volume 2 (p. 685 of 2009 BiblioBazaar publication):
    • [She...] bathed his jobbernowl thrice in the fountain; then threw a handful of meal on his phiz [...]
  • * 1834 , , Rookwood: a romance , volume 2, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, p. 111:
    • His toggery was that of a member of the prize ring – what we now call a “belcher” bound his throat – a spotted fogle'' bandaged his ''jobbernowl , and shaded his right peeper, while a white beaver crowned the occiput of the Magus.
  • * 1868 , , "The Ballad of Sir Ball," The Galaxy, volume 5, p. 329:
    • He stood on the backs of his brace of hacks, in equitation foul; / And either donkey wore what seemed a human jobbernowl .
  • * 2006 , , Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Simon and Schuster, p. 266:
    • Trenholme groaned softly in the background, eliciting a sharp command from his brother to “shut his jobbernowl .”
  • A stupid person; a blockhead:
  • * 1902 , , Olympian Nights, Harper & brothers publishers, p. 185:
    • “And a noodle and a jolt-head; you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a block-headed numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter !” I shrieked the last epithet.
  • * 1906 , , I Am a Cat (p. 189 of 2001 publication by Tuttle Publishing):
    • That he pays not the least regard to the requirements of convention marks him out as either a superior soul or a rightdown jobbernowl.
  • * 1953 , , Escapade: a play in three acts, Heinemann, p. 24:
    • STELLA: [...] You’re a – a jobbernowl'! / JOHN (''arrested''): A what? / STELLA (''reluctantly''): ' Jobbernowl .
  • * 1999 , Henry Mitchell & Allen Lacy, Henry Mitchell on Gardening, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 79:
    • When I discovered I could grow it here — I like to say any jobbernowl can — I was as pleased as a dog with two tails.

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