jabroni
US/d͡ʒəˈbɹoʊni/
jabroni noun: an obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby.
Noun
jabroni (plural jabronis)
- An obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby.
- Howard glared at the kid walking towards him. "Now look here, jabroni. These are my trails and that's my tree house you're playing house in, and I don't remember you asking me permission to be here.[…]"2012 July 10, James Barry, The Sasquatch Chronicles: Attack of the Animizoid, →ISBN
- Sometimes a person is stuck as a jabroni for life. Geraldo Rivera--there's a guy who no matter how high he grows his hair, how full he grows his moustache, or how dangerous an assignment he goes on as an "investigative reporter," he'll always be a jabroni.2013 March 27, Michael Ricci, “Semi-Charmed Kind of Word”, in Columbia Spectator
- A performer whose primary role is to lose according to social standing.
- Get out of that, uh, jabroni outfit.1999, Matthew Moore, Lords of the Lockerroom, spoken by Mark Wolff (Mark Wolff), Can-Am Productions
- A jobber—also known as jabroni, extra, and enhancement talent—is playing the part of getting beat all the time.2004, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan with Steve Anderson, Chair Shots and Other Obstacles: Winning Life's Wrestling Matches, →ISBN, page 148
- Synonyms:
- jobber
Examples of jabroni in a sentence
- I don’t want to feel like I have to stand in the cold again because some jabronis want to blow a three-foot cloud,” Richter says.2014 October 8, Leah Sottile, “The Right to Vape”, in The Atlantic:
- “The hell is this jabroni's deal?” “Clearly job only remnant of old human self Stan remember, because so central to sense of self-worth.”2026 March 8, Jeff Kauffmann, “Powering Through” (16:44 from the start), in American Dad!, season 22, episode 3, spoken by Jeff Fischer...
Synonyms of jabroni
Forms of jabroni
| plural | jabronis |
|---|---|
| alternative form | jabrone |
| alternative form | jabroney |
Origin of jabroni
Alteration of earlier gibone (also spelled jiboney, jaboney, etc.), possibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”). As a wrestling term, it was popularized by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who claimed to have borrowed it from the Iron Sheik. Prior to its popularization by Johnson, the term had also been used by Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, and others.
Words that rhyme with jabroni
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Questions about jabroni
- What does jabroni mean?
- Jabroni means an obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby.
- How do you use jabroni in a sentence?
- I don’t want to feel like I have to stand in the cold again because some jabronis want to blow a three-foot cloud,” Richter says.
- What part of speech is jabroni?
- Jabroni is a noun.
- How do you pronounce jabroni?
- Jabroni is pronounced /d͡ʒəˈbɹoʊni/ (US).
- What is the plural of jabroni?
- The plural of jabroni is jabronis.
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