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slob
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun slob has 1 sense
- slob(n = noun.person) pig, sloven, slovenly person - a coarse obnoxious person; Array has particulars: litter lout, litterbug, litterer, slattern, slovenly woman, slut, trollop
is a kind of vulgarian
OXFORD DICTIONARY
slob, n.
1 colloq. a stupid, careless, coarse, or fat person.
2 Ir. muddy land.
1 colloq. a stupid, careless, coarse, or fat person.
2 Ir. muddy land.
Derivative
slobbish adj.
Etymology
Ir. slab mud f. E slab ooze, sludge, prob. f. Scand.
THESAURUS
slob
Dry Ice, berg, boor, butterfingers, calf, churl, clay, clumsy, cryosphere, drab, dub, duffer, firn, floe, foozler, foul-up, frazil, frozen water, frump, fumble-fist, galoot, glaciation, glacier, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, glop, goof, goofball, goofer, granular snow, ground ice, growler, gumbo, gunk, hick, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike, ice field, ice floe, ice foot, ice front, ice island, ice needle, ice pack, ice pinnacle, ice raft, ice sheet, iceberg, icefall, icequake, icicle, jokul, litterbug, lolly, lout, lummox, lump, mire, muck, mud, muff, muffer, neve, nieve penitente, oaf, ooze, pack ice, pig, rube, schlep, schlump, scum, serac, shelf ice, slab, slattern, sleet, slime, slip, slop, sloppy Joe, slosh, sloven, sludge, slush, slut, snow ice, snowberg, splosh, squash, stumblebum, stumblebunny, swill, swine, trollop, yahoo
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