The sample phrase for "yob" ("also YOBBO") in Cambridge is "a gang of loud-mouthed yobs". So watch out for those. But no, I can't imagine such a thing as a sober yob. They have other names for those people, don't they?
You mean you read the company directions for the rail companies too!, cos they make up the times and places too :0)
Glad the stormy weather yesterday didn't add to the joy of the journey, a few trees went sailing down the valley here but nothing too awaful, though I'm still wondering where Spain is these days as somebody on the BBC infomed me the weather was coming from there and the wind was definitely blowing from the North East!?
YOB, here seems to stand for or should that be fall over for Yelling Obnoxious Boyo though sadly they can be both drunk or sober so no space for the welcome sober YOB.
I'm a yarn yob, meself.
I just like to say it.
Yarnyob, yarnyob....
According to the British-American English references I checked, a yob (or yobbo) is just a hooligan. One mentioned a class connection (a yob is almost always a working class fellow) and another mentioned the back-slang connection: boy = yob.
At the 'animals on the track' bit, I was picturing a cow tied to the tracks like something out of The Perils of Pauline, with a wispy scarf trailing out behind her as a nearby bull twirls his waxed mustache.
Don't forget to order your knitting tarot shirt.
Your friendly online nudge.
M
Yob: Another word I need to add to my vocabulary to make my English officemate laugh.
as a english person that knows the word yob...indeed i know yobs! i assure everyone you can have a sober yob. Indeed I myself, a sweet kind person could be considered a yob when on demonstrations.
A yob...a hooligan or a lout...drunk or sober....
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