Word of the Week : Yob

The ScotsmanJune 19, 2004

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yob: (slang)a raw recruit, a teenage loafer; a lout. - Chamber's

THEY ARE all over our screens this week, and not just the drunk and violent England football fans marauding through the late night streets of Portugal. Even in the Big Brother house, where the eyes of the Channel 4-watching nation are upon them, they've not been hard to spot. For when two of the game show's contestants fight, threaten to kill each other, smash furniture and cause the show to be taken off the air, there's only one word that can possibly be used to describe them. Yobs.

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Word of the Week : Yob

In fact, there are so many yobs around these days that you might wonder when the word ...

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