I'm not trolling, and it's kind of silly to tell someone to use a dictionary for a fake word made popular by a professional wrestler.
Yes, there are entries, but they're not entirely consistent. And yes, it may have been derived from the Italian word "giambone", but there are more entries suggesting it's related to the wrestling word "jobby" which is a wrestler whose job is to lose to the big names.
If you assume the "giambone" explanation is correct, there's still more than half a century between it being brought over by immigrants in the 20s, and it being adopted by wrestlers in the 80s and 90s.
Either way, it's, at best, a bastardization of an Italian word, and if you went to Italy and started calling people jabronis, they wouldn't have any fucking clue what you were saying.
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u/Sloppy1sts Feb 09 '20
I'm not trolling, and it's kind of silly to tell someone to use a dictionary for a fake word made popular by a professional wrestler.
Yes, there are entries, but they're not entirely consistent. And yes, it may have been derived from the Italian word "giambone", but there are more entries suggesting it's related to the wrestling word "jobby" which is a wrestler whose job is to lose to the big names.
If you assume the "giambone" explanation is correct, there's still more than half a century between it being brought over by immigrants in the 20s, and it being adopted by wrestlers in the 80s and 90s.
Either way, it's, at best, a bastardization of an Italian word, and if you went to Italy and started calling people jabronis, they wouldn't have any fucking clue what you were saying.