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.

slob

/ slɒb /

noun

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

2. mire

Other Word Forms

• slobbish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of slob¹

1770–80; < Irish slab ( a ) mud, mire

Word History and Origins

Origin of slob¹

C19: from Irish slab mud; compare _slab

Example Sentences

“That lazy slob is probably just waking up. We’ll end up getting through six stories before he gets down here.”

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Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs.

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Kelly asked Trump about his verbal tirades against women, whom he called “fat pigs,” “dogs,” “slobs” and “disgusting animals.”

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He has some friends — acquaintances, really — whom he hates, mentally labeling them “the riffraff, the vulgarians, the slobs.”

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I knew I was being absurd, a slob, a partial embarrassment, but I didn’t care.

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Related Words

• lout