zob

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A good-for-nothing person.

Word forms

zob zobs

Etymology

Claimed by Swedish scholar Jan Ivarsson (quoted in Green's Dictionary of Slang) to derive from French zob (“dick, cock”), itself from Arabic زُبّ (zubb).

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