Some yob kicked a ball at my head.
Source: tatoeba (9004042)
Yob
//jɑb//
Synonyms for "yob" (42 found)
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39 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- хулига́н noun (antisocial person)
Catalan
1 entries- brètol noun (antisocial person)
Czech
2 entries- chuligán noun (antisocial person)
- vandal noun (antisocial person)
Finnish
1 entries- renttu noun (antisocial person)
French
4 entries- blouson noir noun (antisocial person)
- casseur noun (antisocial person)
- houligan noun (antisocial person)
- loubard noun (antisocial person)
German
4 entries- Halbstarke noun (antisocial person)
- Halbstarker noun (antisocial person)
- Hool noun (antisocial person)
- Hooligan noun (antisocial person)
Greek
1 entries- μάγκας noun (antisocial person)
Italian
2 entries- birichino noun (antisocial person)
- monello noun (antisocial person)
Polish
1 entries- chuligan noun (antisocial person)
Russian
2 entries- го́пник noun (antisocial person)
- хулига́н noun (antisocial person)
Spanish
4 entries- gamberro noun (antisocial person)
- golfo noun (antisocial person)
- granuja noun (antisocial person)
- hincha noun (antisocial person)
Swedish
2 entries- bråkstake noun (antisocial person)
- buse noun (antisocial person)
Ukrainian
1 entries- хуліга́н noun (antisocial person)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"Mum, mum! Tom tripped me!" "That yob! I'll give him what for!"
Source: tatoeba (10641785)
And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.
Source: wiktionary
As we left the cemetery, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob did much living by eighteen." I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that yob did plenty of living.”
Source: wiktionary
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