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slob - 4 dictionary results

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
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.

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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