Meanings
plural slobs
- derogatoryinformalA lazy and slovenly or obese person.
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 Osborne1 more example
"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 - derogatoryCrip slangA member of the Bloods.
present singular third person slobs · participle present slobbing · participle past slobbed · past slobbed
- To move slowly or cumbersomely.
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, →ISBN1 more example
[…] 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 - 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 951 more example
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 - To slop or spatter.
You've been SLOBBED! Hit the showers and try again.
1994, Deep River Publishing, H.U.R.L., MS-DOS, scene: game over screen2 more examples
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 625Just to be sure to achieve extreme flammability, he slobbed on another layer of rubber cement.
2010, Brady Udall, The Lonely Polygamist, →ISBN, page 510 - 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 321 more example
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 - vulgarTo 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 2461 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Irishslaba
- Englishslob
From Irish slaba. Compare slobber, which is of Germanic origin.
More words from Irish
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic تَنْبَل
- تَنْبَل (tanbal)lazy, obese person
Czech flákač, povaleč
- flákačlazy, slovenly person
- povalečlazy, slovenly person
- povalečkalazy, slovenly person
- zahalečlazy, slovenly person
- darmošlaplazy, slovenly person
Danish dovenlars, dovendidrik
- dovenlarslazy, slovenly person
- dovendidriklazy, slovenly person
Dutch luiaard
- luiaardlazy, slovenly person
Finnish laiskuri, vetelys
- laiskurilazy, slovenly person
- vetelyslazy, slovenly person
- vätyslazy, slovenly person
- vätyslazy, obese person
French souillon, flemmard
- souillonlazy, slovenly person
- flemmardlazy, slovenly person
- lambinlazy, obese person
German Dreckspatz, Schmutzfink
- Dreckspatzlazy, slovenly person
- Schmutzfinklazy, slovenly person
- Pennerlazy, slovenly person
- Schlampelazy, slovenly person
- Faulpelzlazy, obese person
Hungarian lompos, trehány
- lomposlazy, slovenly person
- trehánylazy, slovenly person
- rendetlenlazy, slovenly person
- lusta alaklazy, slovenly person
- tohonya alaklazy, obese person
- nagydarab emberlazy, obese person
- hájfejlazy, obese person
Italian sciattone, lazzarone
- sciattonelazy, slovenly person
- lazzaronelazy, slovenly person
Japanese 無精者, 怠け者
- 無精者 (bushōmono)lazy, slovenly person
- 怠け者 (namakemono)lazy, slovenly person
Malay pemalas
- pemalaslazy, obese person
Māori kauae, kauwae
- kauaelazy, slovenly person
- kauwaelazy, slovenly person
Norwegian slask
- slasklazy, slovenly person
Polish bałaganiarz, bałaganiara
- bałaganiarzlazy, slovenly person
- bałaganiaralazy, slovenly person
- bałaganiarkalazy, slovenly person
Russian неря́ха, растрёпа
- неря́ха (nerjáxa)lazy, slovenly person
- растрёпа (rastrjópa)lazy, slovenly person
- замара́шка (zamaráška)lazy, slovenly person
- грязну́ля (grjaznúlja)lazy, slovenly person
- толстя́к (tolstják)lazy, obese person
- толсту́ха (tolstúxa)lazy, obese person
- толсту́шка (tolstúška)lazy, obese person
- лентя́й (lentjáj)lazy, obese person
- лентя́йка (lentjájka)lazy, obese person
- ло́дырь (lódyrʹ)lazy, obese person
Slovak bordelár, šlendrián
- bordelárlazy, slovenly person
- šlendriánlazy, slovenly person
- neporiadniklazy, slovenly person
Spanish vago, zángano
- vagolazy, slovenly person
- zánganolazy, slovenly person
- dejadolazy, slovenly person
- adánlazy, slovenly person
- desastradolazy, slovenly person
- descuidadolazy, slovenly person
- zarrapastrosolazy, slovenly person
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Cite this entry
slob. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slob
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