Letter: Letter

Published 4 April 1998

From Paul Dormer

Although “jobbie” hasn’t made it into the Oxford English Dictionary,
it has made it into the 1993 edition of Chambers Dictionary, where it
is defined as “a lump of excrement”.

Guildford, Surrey

Issue no. 2128 published 4 April 1998

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