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job verb To strike, thrust, pierce or poke with a sharp object. [OED job v¹ 2 dates this usage from 1573; DARE labels it "chiefly South, South Midland" in the U.S.]
1884 Smith Arp Scrap Book 57 Is every man what can write a paragraph to consider us bears in a cage, and be always a-jobbin at us to hear us growl? 1904-20 Kephart Notebooks 2:429 Job that wood into the stove so it won’t fall out on the floor. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) He run in there and jobbed his knife in him, and the old bear jumped. 1960 McCaulley Cades Cove His daddy just grabbed him by the knuckles and there to the seat of the britches and just jobbed him up agin the ceiling four or five times and jumped out from under him and let him hit the floor. 1978 Slone Common Folks 211 [The gander] did not give up that easy, but kept running up and down, jobbing his head between the fine cracks [in the fence], squawking insults at me. 1990 Cavender Folk Medical Lex 26 = used to refer to a sharp, stabbing pain. “The pain in my neck jobbed me all day.”