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A.Word.A.Day--jobbernowl

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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).]

"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.

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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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