Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fobby

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fob-by
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the characteristics of a FOB (a recent immigrant); not having assimilated into the local culture.

Derogatory; Slang

adj

Alternative letter-case form of fobby.

Example Sentences

"“You know what we have to do,” the Hong Kong doctor was saying, and now he was catching on to the thickness of her fobby accent, which she had hidden all along until 1:30 A.M., or whatever the Nomos Minimatik said it was,[…]"
"While being FOBby is undesirable, being FOBulous is tight, as evidenced by the terms' usage among popular Desi teens."

Etymology

From FOB + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: FOB

Usage

Inflected Forms

more fobby (comparative) most fobby (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

FOBulous

Questions

What does fobby mean?: Having the characteristics of a FOB (a recent immigrant); not having assimilated into the local culture.
Where does fobby come from?: From FOB + -y.

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