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 4. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.

1537. Thersites, [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), i. 422]. Jenkin Jacon, that jobbed jolly Joan.

1786. Burns, 'What Ails Ye?' (Bohn, 1842, p. 253), Cry'd three times, 'Robin, Come hither, lad, and answer for't, Ye're blamed for jobbin'.

To be on the job, verb. phr. (general).—To mean honestly; to be genuine; to 'run straight'; to work quickly and steadily; to achieve complete success; to be bent on.

1891. Licensed Victuallers Gaz., 23 Jan. Of course, there was a long wrangle over the choice of referee, for no one cared to occupy that thankless post when the Lambs were on the job.

1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 3. 'Arry is fair on the job.

1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger's, Sweetheart, p. 64. I was on the job.

1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, ch. v. Being on the job we hoped to improve.

To have got the job, verb. phr. (racing).—To have a commission to back a horse.

To do the job for one, verb. phr. (common).—To 'finish' or kill.

To do a woman's job for her, verb. phr. (venery).—To do smock-service.

Jobation (or Jawbation), subs. (old).—A tedious rebuke; a prolonged scolding; a dreary homily.

1746. Sir W. Maynard [in G. Selwyn & his Contemp. by Jesse i. p. 106 (ed. 1882)]. You would not commend yourself for having sent me a jobation for not punctually answering your obliging letters.

1767. Colman, Oxonian in Town, ii. 3. And now I find you as dull and melancholy as a fresh-man at college after a jobation.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Jobation, a reproof.

1803. Gradus ad Cantab. He recounts this jobation to his friends.

1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.

1820. Combe, Syntax, Consolation, canto 5. For Patrick, fearing a jobation, Said nought to forward conversation.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xlii. 410. But here I am at the end of my paper. Don't be angry at my jobation; but write me a long answer of your own free will, and believe me ever affectionately yours.

1863. H. Kingsley, Austin Elliot, xiv. Away he went, after getting a most fearful jobation from the Dean for daring to appear in his presence without his cap and gown.

1883. Clark Russell, Sailor's Language, s.v.

1884. G.A. Sala, Ill. London News, Sept. 6, p. 219, col. 2. 'Why,' writes 'R.R.R.' (Holloway), 'do you write the word jobation, and thereby upset all my preconceived notions that 'jawbation' is a mock solemnity for the vulgar 'jaw'?' My good sir, I wrote, jobation because the word means a long dreary homily or reprimand, and has reference to the tedious rebukes inflicted on the Patriarch Job by his too obliging friends.

Jobbernowl, subs. (old).—1. A fool's head. For general synonyms see Crumpet.

1562. Grim [Dodsley, Old Plays, xi. 241]. Now, miller, miller, dustipoll, I'll clapper-claw thy jobbernoul.

1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe in Works, v. 293. Onely to set their wittes a nibbling, and their iobbernowles a working.

1609. Dekker, Guls Horne-Booke, iii. If all the wise men of Gotham should lay their heades together, their jobbernowles should not bee able to compare with thine.

1638. Ford, Lady's Trial, iv. 2. Took a thousand Spanish jobbernowls by surprise, And beat a sconce about their ears.