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slob noun [ slɒb ]

• a person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.
• "he's a slob and expects others to clean up after him"
Similar: layabout, good-for-nothing, sluggard, slug, laggard, lout, oaf, slacker, couch potato, pig, slummock, yob, chav, schlump, bum, lardass, sloven, lurdan,
• muddy land.

slob verb

• behave in a lazy and slovenly way.
• "he spent his life watching television and generally slobbing around"
Origin: late 18th century: from Irish slab ‘mud’, from Anglo-Irish slab ‘ooze, sludge’, probably of Scandinavian origin.


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