yobo
English
Etymology 1
Noun
yobo (plural yobos)
- Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”).
References
- Yobo, 20th Century Words, by 艾托, John Ayto, Oxford University Press, 2002, Page 224.
- Yobo, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/yobo
Etymology 2
From Korean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”).
Noun
yobo (plural yobos)
- (military, historical) A soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute.
- 2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2:
- Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).
- (Hawaii) A Korean person.
Anagrams
Hawaiian Creole
Etymology
From Korean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”).
Noun
yobo
- a person of (usually local) Korean descent.
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Probably from Ewe yovú (“white man”), Fon yòvó (“white man”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jobo/, [jʊ̞bʊ̞], [jɔ̝bɔ̝]
Noun
yobo
References
- ^ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 475.
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈjo.bo]
Noun
yobo
- a kind of banana
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh