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Definition: Yob |
YobNoun1. A cruel and brutal fellow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: "Boy" spelled backwards. Definition: Hooligan; troublemaker. Context: A word used to refer to a man behaving inappropriately. Social Source: British teenagers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
yob | English | Year of birth | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: YobSynonyms: bully (n), hooligan (n), roughneck (n), rowdy (n), ruffian (n), tough (n), yobbo (n), yobo (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Yob" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.21% of the time. "Yob" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.21% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yob": yob-heaven. | |
Ending with "yob": house-yob. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yob | 13 |
ge yob | 3 |
kejor kejor yob | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yob"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrugaç (Barker, guttersnipe, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, rough, thug, vagrant, whelp, yobbo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أزعر (imp), شقي (brat, evil doer, rogue, unhappy, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хулиган (bully, butch, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, lout, punk, rough, roughneck, rowdy, tearaway), хлапак (loon, punk, shaver, spalpeen, urchin, youngling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 游手好闲的年轻人 (yobbo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | loubard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rowdy (hood, hoodlum, hooligan, roadhog, rouge, roughneck, rowdy, thug, vandal, yobbo), rüpel (boor, hood, lout, ruffian), halbstarke (hooligan, mods, rowdy, teenager, yobbo), flegel (boor, boors, brat, churl, churls, cub, cubs, flail, lout, oaf, roughneck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μάπασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | naplopó (faineant, gadabout, gadder, hake, idler, layabout, lounger, skiver, slacker, slouch, slug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sbarbatello (greenhorn, novice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yobay bagunçeiro. (various references) молокосос (greenhorn, puppy, sucker, whippersnapper, whipster, yob 1, yobbo), паршивец (yob 1, yobbo). (various references) gamberro (hellion, hobbledehoy, hooligan, riff raff, ruffian, thug, thuggish). (various references) kille (bloke, boy, cat, chap, chappie, dog, fellow, guy, Joe, Johnny, joker, josser, kid, scout, Walla, Wallah). (various references) serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering), hödük (boor, boorish, bumpkin, churl, clodhopper, clown, clumsy, country bumpkin, dry stick, dull stick, hayseed, Hick, lubber, oaf, roughneck, rube, ruffian, rustic, stick, yokel), avare (dawdler, dosser, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, idled, rover, straggler, straggling, straggly, strayed, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yob": yobbo, yobboes, yobbos, yobs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "yob": cryobiological, cryobiologies, cryobiologist, cryobiologists, cryobiology, myoblast, myoblasts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: boy. | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-y" | |
-1 letter: bo, by, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-y" | |
+1 letter: body, bogy, bony, boxy, boyo, boys, buoy, doby, goby, obey, orby, sybo, toby, yobs. | |
+2 letters: bayou, blowy, bobby, bogey, boggy, boney, bonny, booby, boogy, boomy, booty, boozy, borty, bosky, bossy, bothy, bousy, boyar, boyla, boyos, brosy, buoys, cobby, corby, dobby, ebony, forby, hobby, lobby, looby, nobby, nobly, obeys, outby, womby, yobbo. | |
+3 letters: barony, baryon, batboy, bayamo, bayous, betony, beyond, biopsy, blocky, bloody, blooey, bloomy, blotty, blousy, blowby, blowsy, blowzy, bodily, bogeys, boldly, bolshy, bombyx, boogey, bosomy, botany, botchy, botfly, bouncy, bounty, bowery, bowyer, boyard, boyars, boyish, boylas, briony, brolly, bronzy, broody, broomy, brothy, browny, bryony, buoyed, busboy, buyout, bygone, byroad, byword, bywork, carboy, corymb, cowboy, cyborg, doubly, embody, emboly, embryo, flyboy, forbye, foreby, globby, gobony, goodby, imbody, knobby, kybosh, lowboy, nobody, obeyed, obeyer, outbuy, outbye, potboy, rebody, skybox, slobby, snobby, syboes, symbol, tomboy, wobbly, yobbos. | |
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