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slob

[ slob ]

noun

  1. a slovenly or boorish person.
  2. Irish English. mud or ooze, especially a stretch of mud along a shore.
  3. Chiefly Canadian. sludge ( def 5 ).


slob

/ slɒb /

noun

  1. informal.
    a slovenly, unattractive, and lazy person
  2. mire


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Derived Forms

  • ˈslobbish, adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of slob1

1770–80; < Irish slab ( a ) mud, mire

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Word History and Origins

Origin of slob1

C19: from Irish slab mud; compare slab

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Example Sentences

Yet a man in a yacht is given preference over the poor slob in his car.

I think you could make a case that Chuck Hagel is not an anti-Semite, but he has been—and may still be—a slob.

Don Draper is an inarticulate slob compared to Richard Dawson.

"I like it that way, you suspicious slob," Art Kuzak chuckled.

Roughing it is making the best of it; only a slob and a chump goes dirty and has a sloppy-looking camp.

Edouard was a lecher and a slob, and I have no doubt he got everything he deserved, but we have no notion who killed him.

Pal Arthur is all very well, but at bossing a bit of a slob.

Slob; a soft fat quiet simple-minded girl or boy:—'Your little Nellie is a quiet poor slob': used as a term of endearment.

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