A task.
I've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab or punch.
Fair dinkum, a man ought to give you a job in the b— face.
A person who shows remarkable patience, especially in the face of great misfortune.
To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
Authors of all work, to job for the season.
To work as a jobber.
A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
A male given name from Hebrew.
A character in the Old Testament and the Qur'an, renowned for his patience.
From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”...
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To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).
a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore