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 ( def 5 ).

slob

/ slɒb /

noun

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

Derived Forms

• ˈslobbish, 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

Your ex-husband frankly sounds like a slob.

From Salon

She suggested that both Black and white audiences understood and enjoyed the racial humor of “the fast-witted, hyper-educated Black detective explaining matters to the backward, blundering Southern-chief-of-police slob.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

“Is the bulls**tter by his very nature a mindless slob? Is his product necessarily messy or unrefined?”

From Salon

On Wednesday, Fetterman told his Democratic colleagues that he would wear a suit when presiding over the chamber and that if he happened to be wearing his traditional slob clothes, he would vote from the cloakroom.

From Slate

Related Words

• lout