Synonyms for slob

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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