yob

Other forms of yob

plural

yobs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about yob

What does yob mean?

yob means "a cruel and brutal fellow".

How many syllables are in yob?

yob has 1 syllable: yob.

What is another word for yob?

Close synonyms include bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yob a common word?

yob is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.