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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--jobbernowl This week's theme: miscellaneous words. jobbernowl (JOB-uh-nowl) noun A blockhead. [From French jobard (stupid, gullible), from Old French jobe (stupid) + noll (top or crown of the head).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "That he pays not the least regard to the requirements of convention marks him out as either a superior soul or a right down jobbernowl." Soseki Natsume; I Am a Cat; Tuttle Publishing; 2002. X-Bonus It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power. -Buddha (c. 563-483 BCE)

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