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Grammar : Noun
Spell : slob
Phonetic Transcription : slɒb



Définition of slob

Origin :
  • 1780, "mud, muddy land," from Irish slab "mud, mire dirt," itself probably borrowed from English slab "muddy place" (c.1600), from a Scandinavian source (cf. Icelandic slabb "sludge"). The meaning "untidy person" is first recorded 1887, from earlier expressions such as slob of a man (1861).
  • noun pig
  • noun messy person
Example sentences :
  • He's a big man and I'm a slob; but all of that doesn't seem to count with him.
  • Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
  • Now it is "slob" mixed with snow born on the Newfoundland coast.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • You were the one who thought this particular average man was a slob.
  • Extract from : « The Common Man » by Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
  • "You're a bossy sort of slob, Heslet Quillan," she said equably.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz
  • Pal Arthur is all very well, but at bossing a bit of a slob.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 23, 1895 » by Various
  • What are you talking nonsense—act like a slob, Mr. Trinkmann?
  • Extract from : « The Competitive Nephew » by Montague Glass
  • The packed "slob" was "running abroad," as the fisher-folk say.
  • Extract from : « Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North » by Fullerton Waldo
  • The sandwich-man had been amiably told by Andrew Barrett, "Hold the pose, you slob!"
  • Extract from : « H. R. » by Edwin Lefevre
  • It had been an ideal costume to struggle through the slob ice.
  • Extract from : « Adrift on an Ice-Pan » by Wilfred T. Grenfell
  • It took an hour to break up the "slob" ice which had cemented about the ship.
  • Extract from : « The North Pole » by Robert E. Peary

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