different between drunkenness vs yob

English

Alternative forms

• dronkennesse (obsolete)

Etymology

drunken +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k?n.n?s/
• Hyphenation: drunk?en?ness

Noun

drunkenness (usually uncountable, plural drunkennesses)

1. A state of being drunk.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunkenness

Antonyms

• soberness; see also Thesaurus:drunkenness#Antonyms

Related terms

• drunk
• drunkard
• drunken

Translations

See also

• drunkenness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Backslang for boy. The second sense was likely influenced by hobnob and/or yokel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: y?b, IPA^(key): /j?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

yob (plural yobs)

1. (obsolete, costermongers, back slang) A boy.
2. (derogatory, chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

Synonyms

• (boy): See Thesaurus:boy
• (antisocial person):
  • (standard register): hooligan
  • (British): tearaway, chav
  • (chiefly Australian slang): yobbo
  • (Geordie slang): charva
• bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian

Derived terms

• (antisocial person): yobbish, yobbo

Related terms

• (boy): elrig (“girl”)

Translations

Anagrams

• BYO, boy, byo, oby