In Canada, "jobby" is slang for some small technical thing you've forgotten the
name of, similar to
doohickey, thingamabob, whatsit,
Technically, it's used as a kadigin in Canada - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thingamajig
tOM
> On 11 May 2006, at 20:53, Olympus wrote:
>
> > I must speak. Scotland can't be the only country in the (vaguely)
> > English-speaking world where 'jobby' is slang for 'turd'.
> >
> > Yours spraying tea all over the screen whenever a comment like this
> > comes over the email,
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