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Slob

//slɒb// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A lazy and slovenly or obese person. derogatory, informal

    "What if God was one of us / Just a slob like one of us"

  2. 2
    a coarse obnoxious person wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To move slowly or cumbersomely.

    "[…] save the placid Jemima who slobbed along as slowly and comfortable as a well-fatted pig returning from feeding-trough to stye."

  2. 2
    To act like a slob, in a lazy or slovenly way.

    "For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness."

  3. 3
    To slop or spatter.

    "He had a pail of paint, and I didn't want to get slobbed up with paint, […]"

  4. 4
    To drool or slobber; to talk while slobbering.

    "I could not understand his intense feeling for his smelly hounds, with their horrible yelping and slobbing mouths."

  5. 5
    To perform fellatio. vulgar

    "A lot of these SUVs have a big enough middle compartment where you can barely reach over and slob his knob."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Irish slaba. Compare slobber, which is of Germanic origin.

Etymology 2

From Irish slaba. Compare slobber, which is of Germanic origin.

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