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Possible definitions for jobbish

mobbish
mobbish
adj : characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "fanned
mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing"; "moblike
mentality" [syn: {moblike}]


jobbing
jobbing
See {job}

job
v 1: profit privately from public office and official business
2: arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: {subcontract},
{farm out}]
3: work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the
semester breaks"
4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to
live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am
speculating" [syn: {speculate}]
[also: {jobbing}, {jobbed}]

job
n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: {occupation},
{business}, {line of work}, {line}]
2: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or
for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that
job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of
repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless
task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning
chores" [syn: {task}, {chore}]
3: the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding
job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
4: the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to
print the truth"
5: a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6: an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held
the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
7: a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and
her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to
contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion
and smog" [syn: {problem}]
8: a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying
the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
9: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank
job in St. Louis" [syn: {caper}]
10: a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith
in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
11: any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without
despairing
12: (computer science) a program application that may consist of
several steps but is a single logical unit
13: a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God
about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: {Book of Job}]
[also: {jobbing}, {jobbed}]


nebbish
nebbish
n : (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton [syn: {nebbech}]


rubbish
rubbish
n 1: worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn: {trash},
{scrap}]
2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: {folderol}, {tripe}, {trumpery},
{trash}, {wish-wash}, {applesauce}, ...

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