subs. (old).—1.  A fool’s head. For general synonyms, see CRUMPET.

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  1599.  NASHE, Lenten Stuffe (GROSART, Works, v., 293). Onely to set their wittes a nibbling, and their IOBBERNOWLES a working.

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  1600.  Grim, the Collier of Croydon, iv. [DODSLEY, Old Plays, xi. 238].

          Robin.  Now, miller, miller, dustipole
I’ll clapper-claw thy JOBBERNOLE.

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  1609.  DEKKER, The Guls Horne-booke, iii. If all the wise men of Gotham should lay their heades together, their JOBBERNOWLES should not bee able to compare with thine.

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  1638.  FORD, The Lady’s Trial, iv. 2.

                            Took
A thousand Spanish JOBBERNOWLS by surprise,
And beat a sconce about their ears.

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  1678.  BUTLER, Hudibras, III. ii. 1007.

        And powder’d the inside of his skull,
Instead of th’ outward JOBBERNOL.

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  1716.  DRYDEN, Counter-scuffle [in Miscellany Poems, 12 mo, iii. 340].

        No remedy in courts of Pauls,
In common pleas, or in the rolls,
For Jolling of your JOBBERNOULS together.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1791.  G. HUDDESFORD, Salmagundi, p. 93, ‘Heroick Ballad.’

        Crack’d ev’n the Sexton’s JOBBERKNOWL,
And spoil’d him for saying Amen.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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  1834.  W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, Book iv. ch. i. ‘What we now call a ‘belcher’ bound his throat; a spotted fogle bandaged his JOBBERNOWL, and shaded his right peeper.’

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (The Lord of Thoulouse).

        So find me out ‘something new under the sun,’
Or I’ll knock your three JOBBERNOWLS all into one!

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  2.  (old).—See quot. 1696. For synonyms, see BUFFLE and CABBAGE-HEAD.

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  1593.  MARSTON, Satires, II. vi. 200.

        His guts are in his brains, huge JOBBERNOULE,
Right gurnet’s head, the rest without all soule.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. JOBBERNOLL, a very silly fellow.

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  1725.  A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.

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  1763.  GAYTON, Festivious Notes on … Don Quixote, iv. 17, p. 260.

        Thou simple animal, thou JOBBERNOLE,
Thy basons, when that once they hang on pole,
Are helmets strait.

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