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Slabbier vs Slobbier - What's the difference?

slabbier | slobbier |

As adjectives the difference between slabbier and slobbier

is that slabbier is (slabby) while slobbier is (slobby).

slabbier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (slabby)

  • slabby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • thick; viscous
  • ''They present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff.' — Selden.
  • sloppy; slimy
  • (Gay)
    (Webster 1913)

    slobbier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (slobby)

  • slobby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slobbish.
  • * 1972 , Anonymous, Go Ask Alice
  • 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.
  • * 1981 , Robert Westall, The Scarecrows?
  • 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.
  • Slobbery.
  • * 1998 , Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman
  • A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar
  • * 2001 , Gillian Cross, The Dark Behind the Curtain?
  • All chewed and slobby with spit. He must have taken huge bites. Like someone starving.
  • (Canada) Slushy, like slob ice.
  • * 2003 , Michael Crummey, Flesh and Blood (page 38)
  • 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