Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scolding; a long tedious reproof.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Law A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof.

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  • noun An extensive rebuke or telling-off; a long criticism or admonitory lecture.

Etymologies

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From jobe.

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Examples

  • He took my jobation in very good part, for I trust that as

    Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

  • He listened to this jobation submissively, and then frankly acknowledged that he had spoken hardly.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • When he had gone I gave Umslopogaas a jobation and told him that I was ashamed of his behaviour.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • It is difficult for me to justify to myself the violent jobation which my Father gave me in consequence of my scream, except by attributing to him something of the human weakness of vanity.

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Julian would gladly have fought it out with his imperative father; but, nevertheless, it was a comfort to have to fetch pale Charles for a jobation; so he went at once.

    The Twins A Domestic Novel Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • Julian would gladly have fought it out with his imperative father; but, nevertheless, it was a comfort to have to fetch pale Charles for a jobation; so he went at once.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • [FOOTNOTE 33: jobation -- a tedious session; scolding]

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

  • After all, there's no place for a cock to fight on like his own dunghill; and there's nothing able to carry a fellow well through a tough bit of jobation [33] with a lawyer like a stiff tumbler of brandy punch.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

  • As I wanted to get home, dreading the jobation I should get from Aunt

    Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Mr Green was presented, and ushered into the service much in the same way as I was; but he had not forgotten what I said to him relative to the first lieutenant; and it so happened that, on the third day he witnessed a jobation, delivered by the first lieutenant to one of the midshipmen, who, venturing to reply, was ordered to the mast-head for the remainder of the day; added to which, a few minutes afterwards, the first lieutenant ordered two men to be put both legs in irons.

    Percival Keene Frederick Marryat 1820

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  • (after the biblical Job - Brit.) A long, tedious criticism: scolding, lecture.

    May 12, 2008

  • Kind of like probation (Amer.) A long, tedious criticism after (or in lieu of) time served.

    May 12, 2008

  • Expressions of disapprobation

    Have many a nasty mutation:

    The cold look that lingers,

    The wagging of fingers,

    But worst is the endless jobation.

    June 21, 2017