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Definition of slob noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

slob

noun
 
/slɒb/
 
/slɑːb/
(informal, disapproving)
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  1. a person who is lazy and dirty or untidy
    • I like things to be tidy—I won't live like a slob.
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Irish slab ‘mud’, from Anglo-Irish slab ‘ooze, sludge’, probably of Scandinavian origin.
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