bob-a-job

English

Etymology

See bob (“shilling”). The first Bob a Job Week was in April 1949.

Noun

bob-a-job (uncountable)

  1. (British, historical) The practice of children undertaking to do small jobs around the home, originally for a charge of one shilling, traditionally offered by boy scouts during a designated week of the year.

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