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slobby en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From slob + -y.

Meanings

1. Slobbish.
   • I've put on seven ugly, fat, sloppy, slobby pounds and I don't have anything I can wear. I'm beginning to look as slobby as I feel. 1972, anonymous author, Go Ask Alice:
   • He'd thought Joe Moreton a great slobby lump; and Joe had not been a great slobby lump. Joe Moreton at least was a man. 1981, Robert Westall, The Scarecrows:
2. Slobbery.
   • A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar […] 1998, Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman:
   • All chewed and slobby with spit. He must have taken huge bites. Like someone starving. 2001, Gillian Cross, The Dark Behind the Curtain:
3. (Canada) Slushy, like slob ice.
   • They had to run for his father and then launch a skiff into the slobby ice, half poling, half hauling toward the spot where he'd last been seen […] 2003, Michael Crummey, Flesh and Blood, page 38:

Forms

Deriveds

slobbiness · slobbily