† jobe, v. Obs. colloq.
(dʒəʊb)
Also 8 joab, job.
[f. Job n.4, in allusion to the lengthy reproofs addressed to Job by his friends.]
trans. To rebuke, reprove, or reprimand, in a long and tedious harangue; to ‘lecture’.
| 1670 Ray Proverbs 207 In the University of Cambridge, the young scholars are wont to call chiding Jobing. 1683 Sir J. Bramston Autobiog. 205 The Kinge had talked earnestly to the Duke and jobed him (that was the word) soe that the teares stood in his eyes. 1709 Tatler No. 71 ¶8 What bright Man says, I was Joab'd by the Dean. 1721–2 Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 33 (1726) 178 A former president of St. John's college..would frequently Job his students for going constantly three or four times a day to chapel. 1794 Gentl. Mag. Dec. 1085 In consequence of an intimation from the tutor relative to his irregularities, his own father came from the country to jobe him. |