JOB

A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue · 1811 · p. 3

A guinea. JOB'S COMFORT. Reproof instead of consolation. JOB'S COMFORTER. One who brings news of some additional misfortune. JOB'S DOCK. He is laid up in Job's dock; i.e. in a salivation. The apartments for the foul or venereal patients in St. Bartholomew's hospital, are called Job's ward.