† ˈjobson Obs.
[The surname Jobson used as a typical name: cf. Hodge. (Perh. associated with job n., v.)]
A country fellow, a lout.
| 1660 Chas. II.'s Esc. fr. Worcester in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 380 They had much ado..to order his steps, and straight body, to a lobbing Jobson's gate, and were forced every foot to remind him of it. 1661 K. W. Conf. Charac., Detracting Empirick (1860) 65 His first adventures are upon the swetty toes and butter teeth of country jobsons. |