What's the meaning of "yobbishness"?
By Margarita
@Meramar (2695)
February 9, 2019 6:08am CST
One of the books I am studying now is called "British Civilization, an introduction" by John Oakland. It's not only the content, which is new to me. Also many new words I have to study, as the book is written in English. To find the meaning of the new vocabulary I usually use a Cambridge Compact Dictionary. But not all words are in the. One of those is "Yobbishness".
Could someone help me and explain what it means? Thank you very much to all of you!
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@Meramar (2695)
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10 Feb 19
@JudyEv Generations ago, mothers stayed at home and had more time to educate their children. Actually, many women wants or have to work outside home and do not have the same time as generations before to assure a great education to their kids. It's like a side affect of the emancipation, I suppose. On the other hand, with the technologies and liberties the actual society offers, it's more difficult to control the kids.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
9 Feb 19
A 'yob' is - literally and metaphorically - a 'backward boy', that is, someone uneducated, loud, loutish and antisocial and generally in their teens or early twenties. To be 'yobbish' is to behave like a yob and, therefore, 'yobbishness' means 'behaviour which is rude, bigoted and antisocial, like that of a yob'.
The word seems to have been coined around the middle of the 19th Century in Britain and is current British slang.
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