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jobbernoul

jobbernoul is the obsolete spelling of jobbernowl.

Meaning of jobbernowl

Noun

jobbernowl (plural jobbernowls)

  1. A person's head, particularly if misshapen or blocky.
    • [She...] bathed his jobbernowl thrice in the fountain; then threw a handful of meal on his phiz …a 1693, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, translators, of François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, original published 1532, volume 2 (p. 685 of 2009 BiblioBazaar publication)
  2. A stupid person; a blockhead
    • “And a noodle and a jolt-head; you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a block-headed numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet.1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights, Harper & brothers publishers, page 185

Forms of jobbernoul

pluraljobbernouls

Questions about jobbernoul

What is jobbernoul the obsolete spelling of?
Jobbernoul is the obsolete spelling of jobbernowl.

Words near jobbernoul in the dictionary

  1. jobbe
  2. jobbed
  3. jobbed backwards
  4. jobber
  5. jobberies
  6. jobbernoul
  7. jobbernouls
  8. jobbernowl
  9. jobbernowls
  10. jobbers
  11. jobbery

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