slob
Americannoun
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a slovenly or boorish person.
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Irish English. mud or ooze, especially a stretch of mud along a shore.
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Chiefly Canadian. sludge.
noun
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informal a slovenly, unattractive, and lazy person
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mire
Other Word Forms
- slobbish adjective
Etymology
Origin of slob
1770–80; < Irish slab ( a ) mud, mire
Example Sentences
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Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs.
From Los Angeles Times
He has some friends — acquaintances, really — whom he hates, mentally labeling them “the riffraff, the vulgarians, the slobs.”
From New York Times
I knew I was being absurd, a slob, a partial embarrassment, but I didn’t care.
From Salon
“Like, aren’t there more important things we should be working on right now instead of, you know, that I might be dressing like a slob?”
From Seattle Times
“I don’t understand it. Aren’t there more important things we should be working on right now instead of that I might be dressing like a slob?”
From Washington Times
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