Yob is slang in the United Kingdom for a loutish, uncultured person.[1][2] In Australia, the word yobbo is more frequently used, with a similar although slightly less negative meaning.
The word itself is a product of back slang, a process whereby new words are created by spelling or pronouncing existing words backwards. The word yob is thus derived from the word boy. It only began to acquire a derogatory connotation in the 1930s.[3]
"Yob" is also the title of a 1998 single by TISM, detailing the "ingredients" which go into making up a yob.
The Yobs and The Yobbettes are a cartoon series written for Private Eye by Tony Husband from the 1980s to 2023.[4]
UK band The Boys rearranged the "B" and the "Y" in their name and became The Yobs, releasing four singles and one album; 1980s Christmas Album. In this incarnation, the band members used the pseudonyms Noddy Oldfield, Ebenezer Polak, Kid Vicious and H. J. Bedwetter.
See alsoedit
Look up yobbo or yob in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
^Terry Victor; Tom Dalzell (Nov 27, 2014). The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English(Google eBook). Routledge. p. 760. ISBN978-0415212595. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
^Etymology for the word yob at Online Etymology Dictionary
^Mike Storry; Peter Childs (2002). British Cultural Identities. Routledge. p. 19. ISBN978-0-415-27860-7.
Referencesedit
Burchfield, R.W. ed. The Oxford English Dictionary. (1987) ISBN0-19-861211-7
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