Citations:jobbernowl

Noun: "a person's head"

 * 1532 François Rabelaism, Gargantua and Pantagruel, volume 2 (p685 of 2009 BiblioBazaar publication)
 * [She...] bathed his jobbernowl thrice in the fountain; then threw a handful of meal on his phiz [...]
 * 1827 "Schmelzle's Journey to Fletz," Blackwood's magazine, volume 22, p480
 * Deeply stooping through the high posthouse door, issues the Giant, heightened by the ell-long bonnet and feather on his huge jobbernowl.
 * 1834 William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood: a romance, volume 2, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, p111
 * His toggery was that of a member of the prize ring – what we now call a “belcher” bound his throat – a spotted fogle bandaged his jobbernowl, and shaded his right peeper, while a white beaver crowned the occiput of the Magus.
 * 1868 William Conant Church, "The Ballad of Sir Ball," The Galaxy, volume 5, p329
 * He stood on the backs of his brace of hacks, in equitation foul; / And either donkey wore what seemed a human jobbernowl.
 * 2006 Pamela Aidan, Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Simon and Schuster, p266
 * Trenholme groaned softly in the background, eliciting a sharp command from his brother to “shut his jobbernowl.”

Noun: "a stupid person"

 * 1902 John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights, Harper & brothers publishers, p185
 * “And a noodle and a jolt-head; you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a block-headed numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet.
 * 1906 Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat (p189 of 2001 publication by Tuttle Publishing)
 * That he pays not the least regard to the requirements of convention marks him out as either a superior soul or a rightdown jobbernowl.
 * 1941 Evelyn Eaton, Restless are the Sails, Harper & Brothers, p10
 * "What Satan's song is that, looby jobbernowl?"
 * 1953 Roger MacDougall, Escapade: a play in three acts, Heinemann, p24
 * STELLA: [...] You’re a – a jobbernowl! / JOHN (arrested): A what? / STELLA (reluctantly): Jobbernowl.
 * 1999 Henry Mitchell & Allen Lacy, Henry Mitchell on Gardening, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p79
 * When I discovered I could grow it here — I like to say any jobbernowl can — I was as pleased as a dog with two tails.