Jobber-knot (or Jobber nut), subs. (old).—A tall ungainly fellow.
1823. Modern Flash Dict., s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Jobbery, subs. (colloquial).—The practice of political corruption; the
employment of unfair means to public or private advantage.
1857. Dickens, Dorrit, II. xii. 351. Mr. Merdle had decided to cast
the weight of his great probity and great riches into the Barnacle
scale. Jobbery was suspected by the malicious.
Jobbing, subs. (venery).—Copulation. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.
1720. Ramsay, ‘Epistle to Lord Ramsay’, in Wks. (1848), ii. 326.
And compliment them with a clap Which by oft jobbing grows a pox.
Jobe. See Job, verb. sense 3.
Job’s-comfort, subs. (old: now colloquial).—Reproof instead of
consolation. Hence Job’s-comforter = a sharp-tongued friend: also = a
boil (in allusion to Job ii, 7.). Job’s-news = bad news; Job’s-post = a
messenger of bad news; As poor as Job’s turkey = (see quot. 1871).
Job’s-wife = a whoring scold. Job’s-dock = a hospital; Job’s-ward = a
ward for the treatment of venereal diseases.
1738. Swift, Polite Convers., Dial. 3. Lady Smart. ... I think your
ladyship looks thinner than when I saw you last. Miss. Indeed,
madam, I think not; but your ladyship is one of Job’s comforters.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Job’s Comfort and Job’s Comforter and Job’s
Dock.
1837. Carlyle, French Revolution, iii. 3. ch. 4. From home there
can nothing come except Job’s-news. Ibid. This Job’s post from
Dumouriez ... reached the National Convention.
1838. Haliburton, Clockmaker, 2. S. ch. ii. ‘Well, I’m e’en a’most
starved, and Captain Jack does look as poor as Job’s turkey; that’s
a fact.’
1854. F. E. Smedley, Harry Coverdale, xxiv. The amiable and timid
London butler, who had played the character of Job’s comforter to
Alice’s Didone abandonata on the memorable evening of the first of
September.
1857. Notes and Queries, 1, S. vii. 180. s.v.
1871. Once a Week. May (quoted by De Vere). Intensified, in
American fashion, by some energetic addition; for instance, ‘As
poor as Job’s turkey, that had but one feather in its tail,’ or,
‘As poor as job’s turkey, that had to lean against a fence to
gobble.’
Jock, subs. (venery).—1. See quot. For synonyms see Creamstick, Prick,
and Monosyllable. Jock-hunting = seeking the sexual favor; and
Jock-Hunter = Mutton-monger (q.v.). [Probably an abbreviation of (Old
Cant) jockum (q.v.). For synonyms see Greens and Ride.]
1790. Potter, Dict. of Cant & Flash, s.v. Jock, private parts of a
man or woman.