Yob vs Kob - What's the difference?
yob | kob |
(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
An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob .
As an abbreviation yob
is (year of birth).As a noun kob is
cube (the third power of a number).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.”