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Slob vs Slobby - What's the difference?

slob | slobby |

As a noun slob

is (informal|disapproving) a lazy and slovenly person.

As an adjective slobby is

slobbish.

slob

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal, disapproving) A lazy and slovenly person.
  • (derogatory) A lazy, obese person.

    • Derived terms

    * slobdom

    Anagrams

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    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