Tuesday, August 9, 2011

job, v.1

† to job faces: to kiss. Obs. rare.
1599  T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. E3,  
What the dickens is it loue that makes ye prate to me so 
fondly, by my fathers soule I would I had iobd faces with you.
a1795 Robin Hood & Maid Marian xiv. in  F. J. Child  
Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. cl. 219/2 With kind embraces, and jobbing of faces.
 
 
a.  To pierce or poke (a person or thing) with a brief, forceful action, 
usually with the end or point of something; to stab, peck, prod, or jab

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