jabroni
/d͡ʒəˈbɹoʊni/noun
jabroni is a noun meaning “An obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-A-B-R-O-N-I, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of jabroni is jabronis.
What does jabroni mean?
noun
- 1
An obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby.
- 2
slangA performer whose primary role is to lose according to social standing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce jabroni?
- US /d͡ʒəˈbɹoʊni/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of jabroni
- jabronis plural
- jabrone
- jabroney
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is jabroni?
Jabroni appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does jabroni come from?
Alteration of earlier gibone (also spelled jiboney, jaboney, etc.), possibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”). As a wrestling term, it was popularized by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who claimed to have borrowed it from the Iron Sheik. Prior to its popularization by Johnson, the term had also been used by Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, and others.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).