Yow vs Yob - What's the difference?
yow | yob |
Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
Expression of pain; ouch.
(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 an interjection yow
is expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.As an abbreviation yob is
(year of birth).yow
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- You've been divorced four times? Yow !
- Yow ! I dropped it on my toe!
Synonyms
* ouch, youchAnagrams
* ----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.”