jobbish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of a jobber or broker.
Example Sentences
- "During this period, the business transacted in the warehouses was altogether of a retail and miscellaneous character, buyers only being tempted to operate where parcels of goods were offered to them at prices closely approximating to jobbish transactions."
- "When the appointment of Mr. Philip Sandys Melvill to Baroda was first announced, it was considered by the Bombay officials especially as rather out-of-the-way, rather a jobbish appointment."
- "This was Burke's earliest reference to the jobbish character of the administration in Ireland. Corruption was a function of its garrison mentality."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more jobbish (comparative)
most jobbish (superlative)