The story
- Middle English · inherited fromgobbe“mass, lump”
- English todayjob lot
Early 19th century. From job + lot (“one or more items auctioned or sold as a unit”). The first part is possibly from Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishgobbe all →
gob
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.