slob

Definition

A lazy and slovenly or obese person.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "What if God was one of us / Just a slob like one of us"
• ""Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless elderly people who can't afford to buy medicine. The current conditions in Indianapolis: Temperature sixty-one degrees, partly cloudy skies, winds from the southwest and intense Midwestern boredom.""