yobo

English

Etymology 1

Noun

yobo (plural yobos)

1. 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)

1. (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).

2. (Hawaii) A Korean person.

Anagrams

• boyo, oboy

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Korean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”).

Noun

yobo

1. a person of (usually local) Korean descent.

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjo.bo]

Noun

yobo

1. a kind of banana

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh