jobbish

English

Etymology

job +‎ -ish

Adjective

jobbish (comparative more jobbish, superlative most jobbish)

1. (rare) Characteristic of a jobber or broker.
   • 1868, USA House of Representatives, House Documents (volume 214? 256? page 87)

     During this period, the business transacted in the warehouses was altogether of a retail and miscellaneous character, buyers only being tempted to operate where parcels of goods were offered to them at prices closely approximating to jobbish transactions.

   • 1882, Behramji Merwanji Malabari, Gujarʹat and the Gujarʹatis, page 52:

     When the appointment of Mr. Philip Sandys Melvill to Baroda was first announced, it was considered by the Bombay officials especially as rather out-of-the-way, rather a jobbish appointment.

   • 2017, Richard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke, page 212:

     This was Burke's earliest reference to the jobbish character of the administration in Ireland. Corruption was a function of its garrison mentality.