yobo
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
edityobo (plural yobos)
- Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”)
References
edit- Yobo, 20th Century Words, by 艾托, John Ayto, Oxford University Press, 2002, Page 224.
- Yobo, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/yobo
Etymology 2
editKorean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”)
Noun
edityobo (plural yobos)
- (military, historical) A soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute.
- 2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2:
- Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).
- (Hawaii) A Korean person.
Anagrams
editHawaiian Creole
editEtymology
editFrom Korean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”).
Noun
edityobo
- a person of (usually local) Korean descent.
Ternate
editPronunciation
editNoun
edityobo
- a kind of banana
References
edit- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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