slob

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Irish slaba. Compare slobber, which is of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: slŏb, IPA(key): /slɒb/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒb

Noun[edit]

slob (plural slobs)

  1. (informal, derogatory) A lazy and slovenly or obese person.
    • 2004, George Carlin, “COMIN' DOWN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:
      "Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless elderly people who can't afford to buy medicine. The current conditions in Indianapolis: Temperature sixty-one degrees, partly cloudy skies, winds from the southwest and intense Midwestern boredom."

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slob (third-person singular simple present slobs, present participle slobbing, simple past and past participle slobbed)

  1. To move slowly or cumbersomely.
    • 1880, “Our Jemimas” […], page 12:
      […] save the placid Jemima who slobbed along as slowly and comfortable as a well-fatted pig returning from feeding-trough to stye.
    • 2008, Nick Oldham, Crunch Time‎[2], →ISBN:
      Mitch slobbed down on to the sofa and plonked a foot on the table, his ankle right next to the offending device.
  2. To act like a slob, in a lazy or slovenly way.
    • 1962, John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, page 20:
      For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness.
    • 2015, Tom Boland, Ray Griffin, “A Telling Silence: Beckett, Kafka, and the Experience of Being Unemployed”, in Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson, editors, Untold Stories in Organizations, →ISBN, page 95:
      There’s nothin’ sweeter than slobbing in front of crap TV after a hard day’s work … There is nothing worse than slobbing in front of crap TV after a hard day’s nothing.
  3. To slop or spatter.
    • 1907, Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan‎[3], volume 147, page 625:
      He had a pail of paint, and I didn't want to get slobbed up with paint,  […]
    • 1994, Deep River Publishing, H.U.R.L., MS-DOS, scene: game over screen:
      You've been SLOBBED! Hit the showers and try again.
    • 2010, Brady Udall, The Lonely Polygamist, →ISBN, page 510:
      Just to be sure to achieve extreme flammability, he slobbed on another layer of rubber cement.
  4. To drool or slobber; to talk while slobbering.
    • 1924, Shane Leslie, Masquerades: Studies in the Morbid, page 32:
      I could not understand his intense feeling for his smelly hounds, with their horrible yelping and slobbing mouths.
    • 1947, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Purple Plain‎[4], page 283:
      He called Carrington’s name with a mouth no longer capable of forming the syllables, passionately desiring the boy to be alive, and the result was a slobbing idiotic cry.
  5. (chiefly with knob, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
    • 2003, Wendy Williams, Wendy’s Got the Heat: The Queen of Radio Bares All, →ISBN, page 246:
      A lot of these SUVs have a big enough middle compartment where you can barely reach over and slob his knob.
    • 2012, Tecori Sheldon, When Truth is Gangsta: A Novel, →ISBN, page 111:
      Only a lame could get his jimmy slobbed down by Lover Lips, who was one of the best gamers on planet-whore, and not learn a thing or two about manipulation.

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