10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOB-JOBBER»
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The Chambers Dictionary
[After Sir Frederick //o*rfa>'(l869-1939)] hobgoblin. See hob2. hobjob hob'job, (
dialect) n an odd job. — vi to do odd jobs. — n hob jobber ^- n hob jobbing
hobnail. See hob1. hobnob hob'nob, adv at random; hit-or-miss; with alternate or
mutual ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
1855. hob-jobber. A man or boy alert for small jobs on the street: (low) coll.:
mostly London: from ca. 1850; ob.—Also vbl n., hob-jobbing. hob-nob. A c.p.
gracing a 'mutual' drinking: ca. 1760—1830: coll. > SE.—2. A drinking together or
to each ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
from ca 1855. hob-jobber . A man or boy alert for small jobs on the street: (low)
coll: mostly London: from ca 1850; ob.—Also vbl n., hob-jobbing. hob-nob . A c.p.
gracing a 'mutual' drinking: ca 1760–1830: coll > S.E. 2. A drinking together or to
...
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Hob-jobber (street), a man or be; who loiters about the streets waiting for small
jobs, such as holding horses, csrryingparcels, he.
Depenmeinwhichtherewasshljuun's Camille; no horses to hold, no peruels to
carry—Th Goal Cms'k.
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Fla to Hyps
Daw. Here be in presence have tasted of her favors. Cler. What a neighing
hobbyhorse is this ! Verb (old).— To romp. Hob-collinqwooo, subs. p\r. (North
Country). — The four of hearts, considered an unlucky card. Hob-jobber, subs, (
streets).
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1893
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Personal Names in Appellative Use in English
80 Hob.jobber . . . . . . . . . 83 Hobbinol . . . . . 48 1 ' 1 892 9°: I09 apple.J . . . . . . . . . .
. 95 black.J. . . . . 90, 91, 100,104 boot.J. . . . . . . . . . . 99 bottle.] . . . . . . . . . . . 99
cheap] . . . . . . . . . . 176, 83 common ]ack . . . . . . . .86 cousinJ. . . . . . . . . . 79 dried] .
... without training their hands or their hearts, assigning them no place among
their fellows but that of the casual "hob-jobber," runner of errands, or loafer about
the streets, is confessedly not Christian, but will any one dream that it is civilising
?
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The life of Benjamin Waugh
Mr. Waugh's own conviction was that to meet the case of the "hob jobber," as
those of his own class call the boy of fourteen who sells papers, holds horses, or
runs errands in the streets, it was necessary to establish compulsory labour
schools.
Rosa Waugh Hobhouse, 1913
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The gaol cradle, who rocks it?
Among the provisions of the gaol is a labour school, and now the "hob-jobber
about " is in the custody of its master. Being already a tolerable reader and writer,
the first fruit of his theft was something to do. Three months you instructed him in ...
... without training their hands or their hearts, assigning them no place among
their fellows but that of the casual "hob-jobber," runner of errands, or loafer about
the streets, is confessedly not Christian, but will any one dream that it is civilising
?
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, 1890
