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Meaning of fobby | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Having the characteristics of a FOB (a recent immigrant); not having assimilated into the local culture.
    derogatory, slang
  2. Alternative letter-case form of fobby.
    alt-of

Examples

““You know what we have to do,” the Hong Kong doctor was saying, and now he was catching on to the thickness of her fobby accent, which she had hidden all along until 1:30 A.M., or whatever the Nomos Minimatik said it was,[…]”
“While being FOBby is undesirable, being FOBulous is tight, as evidenced by the terms' usage among popular Desi teens.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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