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fobby

fobby adjective: having the characteristics of a FOB (a recent immigrant); not having assimilated into the local culture.

Adjective (1)

fobby (comparative more fobby, superlative most fobby)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Having the characteristics of a FOB (a recent immigrant); not having assimilated into the local culture.
    • “You know what we have to do,” the Hong Kong doctor was saying, and now he was catching on to the thickness of her fobby accent, which she had hidden all along until 1:30 A.M., or whatever the Nomos Minimatik said it was,[…]2018, Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success, Penguin, →ISBN

Adjective (2) capitalized: FOBby

FOBby (comparative more FOBby, superlative most FOBby)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of fobby.
    • While being FOBby is undesirable, being FOBulous is tight, as evidenced by the terms' usage among popular Desi teens.2008, Shalini Shankar, Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 69

Forms of fobby

comparativemore fobby
superlativemost fobby
alternative formFOBby
comparativemore FOBby
superlativemost FOBby

Origin of fobby

From FOB + -y.

Questions about fobby

What does fobby mean?
Fobby means having the characteristics of a FOB (a recent immigrant); not having assimilated into the local culture.
What part of speech is fobby?
Fobby is an adjective.

Words near fobby in the dictionary

  1. fobbing off
  2. fobbit
  3. fobbits
  4. Fobbs
  5. Fobbses
  6. fobby
  7. FOBO
  8. fobs
  9. fobs off
  10. FOBT
  11. FOBTs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fobby (page history and authors); FOBby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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