variant spelling of Job.nickname from Old
French job, joppe ‘sorry wretch’, ‘fool’ (perhaps a
transferred application of the name of the Biblical character).from Middle English jubbe, jobbe ‘vessel containing
four gallons’, hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a
cooper. It could also have been a nickname for a heavy drinker or for
a tubby person.metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller
(or nickname for a wearer) of the long woolen garment known in Middle
English and Old French as a jube or jupe. This word
ultimately derives from Arabic.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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