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slob

(slŏb)

n. Informal

A person regarded as slovenly, crude, or obnoxious.

[Irish Gaelic slab, mud, from Old Irish, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal slabb, mud.]

slob′bish, slob′by adj.

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slob

(slɒb)

1. informal a slovenly, unattractive, and lazy person

2. Irish mire

to behave like a slob

[C19: from Irish slab mud; compare slab]

ˈslobbish adj

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slob

(slɒb)

n.

a slovenly or boorish person.

[1770–80; < Irish slab(a) mud, mire]

slob′by, adj. -bi•er, -bi•est.

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Noun

slob - a coarse obnoxious person

sloven, slovenly person, pig

litter lout, litterbug, litterer - a person who litters public places with refuse

slovenly woman, trollop, slattern - a dirty untidy woman

vulgarian - a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth)

slob

noun (Informal) layabout, lounger, loafer, couch potato (slang), idler, good-for-nothing My boyfriend used to call me a fat slob.

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Translations

lambin

balordo donnaccia sciattone

грязнуля замарашка неумойка

slob

[slɒb] N → vago/a m/f, dejado/a m/f

slob out VI + ADV → holgazanear, zanganear, haraganear

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slob

[ˈslɒb] n → bon(ne) m/f à rien
a lazy slob → un flemmard

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

slob

n (inf) → Drecksau f (inf)

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slob

[slɒb] n (fam) → sciattone/a

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"Not so as any slob can testify before a court to havin' seen me." Then, with a quick shift, he changed the subject.

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"Gawd blime me if you ayn't a slob. Wot 're you good for anyw'y, I'd like to know?

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The number of slobs fell to six per cent in London, the South West, Wales and Scotland.

Nowt so slobby as Yorkshire

"I would rather people missed the Slobs than say the Slobs aren't funny any more.

Waynetta goes for a fag break

If the answer is yes both times, here's your chance to show your man up for the slob he is - and to smarten him up.

SMARTEN UP YOUR SCRUFF

We all know the "office slob"with mountains of paper and files, the soda cans, half-filled coffee cups and assorted collections of everything from personal memorabilia to medications to food and leftovers.

A worker's untidy desk becomes topic of gossip in an open office

Some wanted the house, the others wanted all that was left within and there were yet others who wanted the dead bodies of the three slobs to sell for a profit.

A tale of three slobs

This show takes things about five steps further, as each week we follow daring individuals who want to change from "slob men" into supermen.

press ups, pedicures and pec enhancers; Nick Bishop is intrigued but ultimately appalled by C4's new show, Extreme Male Beauty

"I'm going to show these fat slobs what real boxing is about.

In Brief: Haye vows to fight the flab

I'm assuming they do it all themselves or they have a mother at home doing it for them, or they've chosen to pay it out (doubt it, given student income), or they've chosen to be slobs. Which leads to my next question.

Feminist identities

And who is to say who the slobs are who make the mess?

Can-do hero shames us

A four-group solution contains the most potentially useful set of eighteen- to twenty-four-year-old smokers: Slobs, Aspiring Sophisticates, Conservatives, and Worriers.