1537. Thersites, [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), i. 422]. Jenkin Jacon,
that jobbed jolly Joan.
1786. Burns, ‘What Ails Ye?’ (Bohn, 1842, p. 253), Cry’d three
times, ‘Robin, Come hither, lad, and answer for’t, Ye’re blamed for
jobbin.’
To be on the job, verb. phr. (general).—To mean honestly; to be
genuine; to ‘run straight’; to work quickly and steadily; to achieve
complete success; to be bent on.
1891. Licensed Victuallers Gaz., 23 Jan. Of course, there was a
long wrangle over the choice of referee, for no one cared to occupy
that thankless post when the Lambs were on the job.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, 3. ’Arry is fair on the job.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger’s Sweetheart, p. 64. I was on the
job.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, ch. v. Being on the job we hoped to
improve.
To have got the job, verb. phr. (racing).—To have a commission to back
a horse.
To do the job for one, verb. phr. (common).—To ‘finish’ or kill.
To do a woman’s job for her, verb. phr. (venery).—To do smock-service.
Jobation (or Jawbation), subs. (old).—A tedious rebuke; a prolonged
scolding; a dreary homily.
1746. Sir W. Maynard [in G. Selwyn & his Contemp. by Jesse i. p.
106 (ed. 1882)]. You would not commend yourself for having sent me
a jobation for not punctually answering your obliging letters.
1767. Colman, Oxonian in Town, ii. 3. And now I find you as dull
and melancholy as a fresh-man at college after a jobation.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Jobation, a reproof.
1803. Gradus ad Cantab. He recounts this jobation to his friends.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1820. Combe, Syntax, Consolation, canto 5. For Patrick, fearing a
jobation, Said nought to forward conversation.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
1861. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xlii. 410. But here I am at
the end of my paper. Don’t be angry at my jobation; but write me a
long answer of your own free will, and believe me ever
affectionately yours.
1863. H. Kingsley, Austin Elliot, xiv. Away he went, after getting
a most fearful jobation from the Dean for daring to appear in his
presence without his cap and gown.
1883. Clark Russell, Sailor’s Language, s.v.
1884. G. A. Sala, Ill. London News, Sept. 6, p. 219, col. 2. ‘Why,’
writes ‘R.R.R.’ (Holloway), ‘do you write the word jobation, and
thereby upset all my preconceived notions that ‘jawbation’ is a
mock solemnity for the vulgar ‘jaw’?’ My good sir, I wrote,
jobation because the word means a long dreary homily or reprimand,
and has reference to the tedious rebukes inflicted on the Patriarch
Job by his too obliging friends.
Jobbernowl, subs. (old).—1. A fool’s head. For general synonyms see
Crumpet.
1562. Grim [Dodsley, Old Plays, xi. 241]. Now, miller, miller,
dustipoll, I’ll clapper-claw thy jobbernoul.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe in Works, v. 293. Onely to set their
wittes a nibbling, and their iobbernowles a working.
1609. Dekker, Guls Horne-Booke, iii. If all the wise men of Gotham
should lay their heades together, their jobbernowles should not bee
able to compare with thine.
1638. Ford, Lady’s Trial, iv. 2. Took a thousand Spanish
jobbernowls by surprise, And beat a sconce about their ears.
1678. Butler, Hudibras, III. ii. 1007. And powder’d th’ inside of
his skull, Instead of th’ outward jobbernol.
1716. Dryden, Counterscuffle, [in Misc. 12mo, iii. 340]. No remedy
in courts of Pauls, In common pleas, or in the rolls, For jolling
of your jobbernouls together.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1791. G. Huddesford, Salmagundi, p. 93. Crack’d ev’n the Sexton’s
jobberknowl, And spoil’d him for saying Amen.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, Book iv. ch. i. ‘What we now call a
‘belcher’ bound his throat; a spotted fogle bandaged his
jobbernowl, and shaded his right peeper.’
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, (Lord of Thoulouse). So find me
out something new under the sun, Or I’ll knock your three
jobbernowls all into one!