- She's a fob, she doesn't understand what you're saying.
fob [2]
noun; acronym
Acronym for fresh off the boat. Used to describe someone who very recently immigrated from another country, particular form a country where a different language is spoken. Use of word is derogatory. Boat is extended to mean any form of transportation used to immigrate to a new country.
Etymology : Acronym for fresh off (the) boat. Fresh "unsalted, pure, sweet, eager," metathesis of Old English fersc "unsalted," from West Germanic *friskaz Off as an emphatic form of Old English of (see of), employed in the adverbial use of that word. The prepositional meaning "away from" and the adjectival sense of "farther" were not firmly fixed in this variant until 17c., but once they were they left the original of with the transferred and weakened senses of the word Boat Old English bat "boat, ship, vessel," from Proto-Germanic *bait-, possibly from PIE root *bheid- "to split," with the sense of making a boat by hollowing out a tree trunk; or it may be an extension of the name for some part of a ship. French bateau "boat" is from Old English or Norse. Spanish batel, Italian battello, Medieval Latin batellus likewise probably are from Germanic.
Source : Friend. August 2013.
Last modified: 26 November 2013