Dictionary

slob en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈslɒb/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈslɑb/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (derogatory, informal) A lazy and slovenly or obese person.
   • "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." 2004, George Carlin, “COMIN' DOWN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:
   • What if God was one of us / Just a slob like one of us 1995, Eric Bazilian, “One of Us”, in Relish, performed by Joan Osborne:
2. (derogatory, qualifier:Crip slang) A member of the Bloods.

Forms

Coordinates

hoochie · crab

Deriveds

slobbism · slobbery · slobette · Slobbovia · slob ice · slobland · slobby · slobdom · slobification · slobbish

Translations (62)

ru растрёпа (lazy, slovenly person) · it sciattone (lazy, slovenly person) · ru ло́дырь (lazy, obese person) · es adán (lazy, slovenly person) · fr flemmard (lazy, slovenly person) · es vago (lazy, slovenly person) · es zarrapastroso (lazy, slovenly person) · sh aljkavac (lazy, slovenly person) · de Dreckspatz (lazy, slovenly person) · pl bałaganiarka (lazy, slovenly person) · ar تَنْبَل (lazy, obese person) · hu nagydarab ember (lazy, obese person) · cs povalečka (lazy, slovenly person) · hu trehány (lazy, slovenly person) · hu rendetlen (lazy, slovenly person) · es zángano (lazy, slovenly person) · hu tohonya alak (lazy, obese person) · ru толсту́шка (lazy, obese person) · fi vätys (lazy, obese person) · es dejado (lazy, slovenly person) · da dovendidrik (lazy, slovenly person) · cs povaleč (lazy, slovenly person) · de Schmutzfink (lazy, slovenly person) · ja 無精者 (lazy, slovenly person) · no slask (lazy, slovenly person) · sk bordelár (lazy, slovenly person) · de Schlampe (lazy, slovenly person) · fr souillon (lazy, slovenly person) · fr lambin (lazy, obese person) · cs zahaleč (lazy, slovenly person) · hu hájfej (lazy, obese person) · ms pemalas (lazy, obese person) · ru лентя́й (lazy, obese person) · ru лентя́йка (lazy, obese person) · ru неря́ха (lazy, slovenly person) · hu lusta alak (lazy, slovenly person) · sk šlendrián (lazy, slovenly person) · cs darmošlap (lazy, slovenly person) · gu આળસી (lazy, slovenly person) · pl bałaganiarz (lazy, slovenly person) · sk neporiadnik (lazy, slovenly person) · fi vätys (lazy, slovenly person) · mi kauae (lazy, slovenly person) · ja 怠け者 (lazy, slovenly person) · hu lompos (lazy, slovenly person) · da dovenlars (lazy, slovenly person) · mi kauwae (lazy, slovenly person) · es desastrado (lazy, slovenly person) · de Faulpelz (lazy, obese person) · es descuidado (lazy, slovenly person) · it lazzarone (lazy, slovenly person) · fi vetelys (lazy, slovenly person) · pl bałaganiara (lazy, slovenly person) · fi laiskuri (lazy, slovenly person) · cs flákač (lazy, slovenly person) · ru замара́шка (lazy, slovenly person) · ru толстя́к (lazy, obese person) · nl luiaard (lazy, slovenly person) · ru грязну́ля (lazy, slovenly person) · de Penner (lazy, slovenly person) · ru толсту́ха (lazy, obese person) · izh vetelys (lazy, slovenly person)

slob en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈslɒb/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈslɑb/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. To move slowly or cumbersomely.
   • […] save the placid Jemima who slobbed along as slowly and comfortable as a well-fatted pig returning from feeding-trough to stye. 1880, “Our Jemimas” […], page 12:
   • Mitch slobbed down on to the sofa and plonked a foot on the table, his ankle right next to the offending device. 2008, Nick Oldham, Crunch Time, →ISBN:
2. To act like a slob, in a lazy or slovenly way.
   • 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. 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:
   • 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. 1962, John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, page 20:
3. To slop or spatter.
   • He had a pail of paint, and I didn't want to get slobbed up with paint, […] 1907, Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, volume 147, page 625:
   • Just to be sure to achieve extreme flammability, he slobbed on another layer of rubber cement. 2010, Brady Udall, The Lonely Polygamist, →ISBN, page 510:
   • You've been SLOBBED! Hit the showers and try again. 1994, Deep River Publishing, H.U.R.L., MS-DOS, scene: game over screen:
4. To drool or slobber; to talk while slobbering.
   • I could not understand his intense feeling for his smelly hounds, with their horrible yelping and slobbing mouths. 1924, Shane Leslie, Masquerades: Studies in the Morbid, page 32:
   • 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. 1947, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Purple Plain, page 283:
5. (vulgar, with knob) To perform fellatio.
   • A lot of these SUVs have a big enough middle compartment where you can barely reach over and slob his knob. 2003, Wendy Williams, Wendy’s Got the Heat: The Queen of Radio Bares All, →ISBN, page 246:
   • 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. 2012, Tecori Sheldon, When Truth is Gangsta: A Novel, →ISBN, page 111:

Forms

Deriveds

slob it · slob out · slob about · slob around