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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
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 other's health: 1825; coll. till C
.20, then SE. See hob and nob.—3. A familiar, intimate conversation: coll.:—1876
...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Eric Partridge. hob-job . An unskilled or clumsy job; an oddjob: s. and dial.: 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 .
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Prosperity Or Pauperism?: Physical, Industrial, and ...
A few years spent on the streets in what is called ' hob-jobbing,' virtually settles
their future lot ; it stamps upon them indelibly the features of the tramp, the pauper
, and the criminal ; it feeds the horrible stream of fallen women which makes the ...
Reginald brabazon Meath (12th earl of), 1888
A few years spent on the streets in what is called " hob- jobbing," virtually settles
their future lot ; it stamps upon them indelibly the features of the tramp, the pauper
, and the criminal ; it feeds the horrible stream of fallen women which makes the ...
It is probable that, every day, not less than 70,000 boys and girls are actually '
hob-jobbing ' about, utterly helpless, until they hob-job into gaols, penitentiaries,
and reformatories.“ I was seconded by Mr. Hayes Fisher, and heartily supported
by ...
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The Contemporary Review
... hob-jobbing about,' utterly helpless, until they hob-job into gaols, penitentiaries
, reformatories."— Extract from " The Gaol Cradle : Who Rocks it ? " By the Kev.
Benjamin Waugh. The British public were recently stirred by that remarkable
book ...
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The Parliamentary Debates (official Report[s]) ...
It is probable that, every day, not less than 70,000 boys and girls are actually '
hob-jobbing ' about, utterly helpless, until they hob-job into gaols, penitentianes,
and reformatories." I think I know Liver ol well—I do not know London so we l—
and ...
Great Britain. Parliament, 1889
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The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition)
It is probable that, every day, not less than 70,000 boys and girls are actually '
hob-jobbing' about, utterly helpless, until they hob-job into gaols, penitentiaries,
and reformatoriee." I think I know Liver ol well—I do not know London so we l—
and ...
Great Britain. Parliament, William Cobbett, Thomas Carson Hansard, 1972
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In prison and out. By Hesba Stretton
The boy had begun to earn a few pence in the streets as soon as he could sell
matches ; and he was now getting a precarious and uncertain living for himself by
"hob-jobbing" as he called it. The Sunday afternoons and evenings, when their ...
