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zob

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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).

noun zobs

US, dated, derogatory, slang A good-for-nothing person. And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!
Similar: absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher, cockstain, crumb, custron, dandiprat

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"zob." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/zob. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"zob." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/zob.

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@misc{zob_2026,
  title = {zob},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zob},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}