joob

Updated: May 9, 2025

Takahashi was insulted, the boys told me, because I said he was born to be a cook. It seemed the Jap looked down upon this culinary job. "Cook that woman joob!" he said, contemptuously. As I became better acquainted with Takahashi I learned to think more of the Japanese. I studied Takahashi very earnestly and I grew to like him. The Orientals are mystics and hard to understand.

Zane Grey - Tales of lonely trails