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Yob vs Nob - What's the difference?

yob | nob |

As nouns the difference between yob and nob

is that yob is a person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness while nob is a wealthy or influential person; a toff.

As an abbreviation YOB

is abbreviation of lang=en|year of birth birthyear.

As a verb nob is

{{cx|informal|lang=en}} To hit in the head.

As a proper noun Nob is

a place, north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants were massacred by Saul.

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

    * *

    nob

    English

    Etymology 1

    * From "nobleman" or "member of the nobility" (Doubtful) * From "white-nob" (Eighteenth century) or "white-head", referring to the powdered wigs used by those affecting upper middle-class status.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
    • The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
  • :: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The head.
    • Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.
  • (cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
    • One for his nob .
  • (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.

    • Verb

  • To hit in the head

    • Anagrams

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