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Job (To)

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To strike. To give one a “job in the eye” is to give one a blow in the eye; and to “job one in the ribs” is to strike one in the ribs, to stab one in the ribs. Job and probe seem to be very nearly allied. Halliwell gives the word “stop,” to poke or thrust, which is allied to stab.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Joan Cromwell
Joan of Arc or Jeanne la Pucelle
Joannes Hagustaldensis
Job (o long)
Job’s Comforter
Job’s Pound
Job (o short)
Job (o short)
Job Lot (A)
Jobs
Job (To)
Jobation
Jobber
Jobbing Carpenter
Jocelin de Brakelonda
Jockey
Jockey (To)
Jockey of Norfolk
Joe or a Joe Miller
Joey
Jog