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Yon vs Yob - What's the difference?

yon | yob |

As a noun yon

is .

As an abbreviation yob is

(year of birth).

yon

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Adjective

(-)
  • (dated, or, dialect) That (thing) over there; of something distant, but within sight.
    • He went to climb yon hill.
  • * Milton
    • Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.
  • *

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • (dated, or, dialect) Yonder.

    • Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (dated, or, dialect) That one or those over there.

    • Etymology 2

    Phrase

    (en-phrase)
  • (knitting)
  • * 2006 , Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting (page 222)
    • Buttonhole row: (K1, p1) 3 times, yon', k2tog, (k1,p1) 5 times, ' yon , k2tog,
    ----

    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

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