Sob vs Yob - What's the difference?
sob | yob |
(pejorative, chiefly, British, Australia, NZ, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.
* 2010 , Paul R. Wilson, The Birthday of Eternity , page 209
As a noun sob
is a cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.As a verb sob
is to weep with convulsive gasps or sob can be to soak.As an abbreviation yob is
(year of birth).yob
English
Noun
(en noun)- As we left the cemetary, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob' did much living by eighteen."
I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that '''''yob did plenty of living.”