Lower Slobbovia
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Lower Slobbovia
After an imaginary country of that name in the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp; blend of slob and Latinized names of remote places, as Mongolia and Siberia
Example Sentences
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The dismal, Arctic citizens of Lower Slobbovia are forever doomed to stand buried to their chins in snow, bitten from behind by sempiternally voracious bears and wolves.
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Dogpatchers went calling on the snowbound citizens of Lower Slobbovia, home of Lena the Hyena, world's ugliest woman.
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Operation Haylift flew over rugged mountains which pilots nicknamed "Lower Slobbovia."
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From "Frank Half-buck, the great explorer," he heard about "Lena, the hyena from Lower Slobbovia."
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Adds Al Capp, who has produced some pungent humor of his own�and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography�in the hillbilly world of Li'I Abner: "The new comics are the real Black Humorists."
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