Etymology

jiboney

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Today it means: A low-level tough or thug, a mean man. Full definition →

Italian giambone
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromgiambone
  2. English todayjiboney

Possibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”).

Words from the same roots

Italiangiambone all →

jabroni

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.