Slobby vs Sloppy - What's the difference?
slobby | sloppy |
Slobbish.
* 1972 , Anonymous, Go Ask Alice
* 1981 , Robert Westall, The Scarecrows?
Slobbery.
* 1998 , Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman
* 2001 , Gillian Cross, The Dark Behind the Curtain?
(Canada) Slushy, like slob ice.
* 2003 , Michael Crummey, Flesh and Blood (page 38)
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
Imprecise or loose.
As adjectives the difference between slobby and sloppy
is that slobby is slobbish while sloppy is very wet; covered in or composed of slop.slobby
English
Adjective
(er)- 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.
- 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.
- A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar
- All chewed and slobby with spit. He must have taken huge bites. Like someone starving.
- 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
sloppy
English
Adjective
(er)- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!
