zob
zob noun: a good-for-nothing person.
Noun
zob (plural zobs)
- A good-for-nothing person.
- And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section III, pages 415–416
- Synonyms:
- absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher, cockstain, crumb
Synonyms of zob
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Forms of zob
| plural | zobs |
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Origin of zob
Claimed by Swedish scholar Jan Ivarsson (quoted in Green's Dictionary of Slang) to derive from French zob (“dick, cock”), itself from Arabic زُبّ (zubb).
Questions about zob
- What does zob mean?
- Zob means a good-for-nothing person.
- What part of speech is zob?
- Zob is a noun.
- What is the plural of zob?
- The plural of zob is zobs.
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