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Dob vs Yob - What's the difference?

dob | yob |

As nouns the difference between dob and yob

is that dob is a small amount of something, especially paste while yob is a person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.

As an initialism DOB

is date of birth.

As a verb dob

is to report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.

As an abbreviation YOB is

abbreviation of lang=en|year of birth birthyear.

dob

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • date of birth
  • Daughters of Bilitis. The first organized and successful Lesbian liberation organization in the United States.
  • Anagrams

    *

    yob

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 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.”

    Synonyms

    * (standard register) hooligan * (British) tearaway, chav * (Chiefly Australian slang) yobbo * (Geordie slang) charva

    Derived terms

    * yobbo

    Anagrams

    * *