Was this an insult?!


Question:

Was this an insult?

I was called a JOBBERNOWL today.


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yes, it means a stupid person... lmao


I found this for you hope it helps


Unfortunately, this useful and effective insult has rather dropped out of use in these mealy-mouthed times. The last excursion for it that I can find is in the classic W C Fields film The Bank Dick of 1940, in which the word occurs in a variant form in the line: “Surely, don’t be a luddie-duddie, don’t be a moon-calf, don’t be a jabbernow, you’re not those, are you?”. Before that, it turns up in one of the novels of Hall Caine in 1890, but even by then it seems to have been rather rare.

It’s from the old French jobard, from jobe, silly. That word was then added to noll, the top or crown of the head, the noddle. The first sense was of a block-like or stupid-looking head, but was soon extended to refer to the quality of the mind within. Jobbernowlism is the condition or state of being a jobbernowl, or an act or remark that is especially stupid.


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