ג'ובניקjobnik meaning in Hebrew
a soldier with a cushy, non-combat job · noun (masculine, slang)
English 'job' + Yiddish-Slavic '-nik'. The English root gives it away: this soldier has a job, not a war.
אחי ג'ובניק בבסיס ליד הבית, חוזר כמעט כל ערב עם כביסה.
“My brother's a jobnik on a base near home, comes back almost every evening with laundry.”
Do you know someone in your life who'd proudly call themselves a jobnik, or someone who'd bristle at it?
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