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slob
[slob] 
–noun
| 1. | a slovenly or boorish person. |
| 2. | Irish English. mud or ooze, esp. a stretch of mud along a shore. |
| 3. | Chiefly Canadian. sludge (def. 5). |
Origin:
1770–80; < Ir slab(a) mud, mire
1770–80; < Ir slab(a) mud, mire
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| slob (slŏb) n. Informal A person regarded as slovenly, crude, or obnoxious. [Irish Gaelic slab, mud, from Old Irish, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal slabb, mud.] slob'bish, slob'by adj. |
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slob
1780, "mud, muddy land," from Ir. slab "mud," itself probably borrowed from Eng. slab "muddy place" (1610), from a Scand. source (cf. Icelandic slabb "sludge"). The meaning "untidy person" is first recorded 1861.
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