jabroni
/d͡ʒəˈbɹoʊni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby.
Example Sentences
- "Howard glared at the kid walking towards him. "Now look here, jabroni. These are my trails and that's my tree house you're playing house in, and I don't remember you asking me permission to be here.[…]""
- "Sometimes a person is stuck as a jabroni for life. Geraldo Rivera--there's a guy who no matter how high he grows his hair, how full he grows his moustache, or how dangerous an assignment he goes on as an "investigative reporter," he'll always be a jabroni."
- "“I don’t want to be bullied again. I don’t want to feel like I have to stand in the cold again because some jabronis want to blow a three-foot cloud,” Richter says."
- "“The hell is this jabroni's deal?” “Clearly job only remnant of old human self Stan remember, because so central to sense of self-worth.”"
- "Get out of that, uh, jabroni outfit."
- "A jobber—also known as jabroni, extra, and enhancement talent—is playing the part of getting beat all the time."
Etymology
Alteration of earlier gibone (also spelled jiboney, jaboney, etc.), possibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”). As a wrestling term, it was popularized by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who claimed to have borrowed it from the Iron Sheik. Prior to its popularization by Johnson, the term had also been used by Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, and others.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: giambone
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒəˈbɹoʊni/