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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

yob

I unseratand 'yob (yobbo)' is BrE.
I wonder what is the American equivalent.
Thank you.
  

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Anon, I don't understand what you mean by 'unseratand' so I was going to ignore this post but since this is an easy question, here you go. com a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: bully , tough , hooligan , ruffian , roughneck , rowdy , yob , yobo ]

— Danyoo

  • Anon, I don't understand what you mean by 'unseratand' so I was going to ignore this post but since this is an easy question, here you go.
  • com a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: bully , tough , hooligan , ruffian , roughneck , rowdy , yob , yobo ]
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Anon,

I don't understand what you mean by 'unseratand' so I was going to ignore this post but since this is an easy question, here you go.

From dictionary.com
a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: bully, tough
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Hi,

Some of the terms listed from dictionary.com are not current in everyday speech.

If I had trouble with some guy sitting beside me at a baseball game, I wouldn't come home and tell my wife 'I had an altercation with a ruffian'. It sounds like something from Charles Dickens.

We need a modern English slang term. I'd say something like 'I got into it with some
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