[‘ A country person; a yokel, a peasant.']
Etymology: < /Jobson/, considered as a typical surname of country people. Compare Hob n.1, Hodge n., hick n.1
In depreciative use perhaps sometimes associated with job n.2, job v.2
Compare the following earlier use of the surname, apparently in a generic or proverbial use (or with allusion to such use), collocated with the surname Hobson:
1594 W. Clerke /Triall of Bastardie/ vii. 62 Betweene the consanguines themselues, by this marriage, there is no affinitie contracted, more than was betweene Hobson and Iobson, by looking through a hedge when they spyed one another.
Chiefly depreciative. Obs.
A country person; a yokel, a peasant.
1660 /Exact Narr. Escape Worcester/ 8 They had much adoe..to order his steps and straight body, to a lobbing, jobson’s gate, and were forced every foot to mind him of it.
1661 K. W. /Confused Characters/ 83 His first adventures are upon the swetty toes & butter teeth of country jobsons.
1827 J. Barrington /Personal Sketches Own Times/ I. 388 He accordingly got a carpenter (one of his comrades) to erect a cobbler’s stall there, for him; and having assumed the dress of a Jobson, he wrote over his stall, ‘Curran, Cobbler’.