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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++slob1 /slɒb $ slɑːb/ noun [countable] informal  1UNTIDYsomeone who is lazy and untidy 懒惰又邋遢的人 a lazy slob 一个懒惰又邋遢的家伙
Examples from the Corpus
slobThen Scott started on the children, calling the oldest girl a slob.If you keep dressing like a slob, no one's ever going to ask you for a date.You can look like a slob for free, I figure.I choose to believe he was merely a slob rather than inefficient enough to walk around with bloodstains from his last victim.Jo's such a slob - how can you live like that?And the big slob didn't even realize how objectionable he was.Why are you going out with that fat slob?His no-good slob of a kid was talking of having forty thousand dollars.Larry Flynt presents the infamous pornographer as a likable slob who faced down the big guys and won.Ludwig Holzer claims that slobs work harder because they feel they must prove something.
slob2 verb (slobbed, slobbing)  1.slob around/out phrasal verb British English informal to spend time doing nothing and being lazy 游手好闲,无所事事→ See Verb tableOrigin slob (1700-1800) Irish Gaelic slab mud
untidy lazy who and is someone Corpus


slob
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slob1 /slɒb $ slɑːb/ noun [countable] informal
 Date: 1700-1800
 Language: Irish Gaelic
 Origin: slab 'mud'
someone who is lazy and untidy:
    a lazy slob
     
THESAURUS
■ person
    untidy British English an untidy person does not do things in a neat way, for example they leave things lying around instead of putting them back in the correct place. Also used about someone's appearance, when they do not comb their hair, take care of their clothes etc: She was always very untidy – her clothes lay on the floor where she had dropped them. | He had obviously been sleeping; his hair was untidy and his chin unshaven.
    messy untidy or dirty. American people use this word instead of untidy. British people use this word, but it sounds less formal than untidy: You've made my hair all messy. | a messy eater
    scruffy British English wearing old and untidy clothes: My parents think I look scruffy in these jeans, but I like them. | She’s wearing that scruffy old sweater again.
    slovenly especially written untidy and lazy: The servants were old and slovenly. | his slovenly appearance | The work was done in a slow, slovenly way.
    bedraggled used when someone looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty: A rather bedraggled crowd waited outside in the pouring rain. | The children walked along the path, looking miserable and bedraggled.
    dishevelled British English, disheveled American English if someone's hair or clothes look dishevelled, they look untidy, for example because they have just been in bed or in a windy place: Her hair was uncombed and her clothes were dishevelled. | a dishevelled old man | The singer was photographed looking ill and dishevelled.
    unkempt especially written if someone has unkempt hair or an unkempt appearance, they look untidy and have not been taking care of the way they look: a rough-looking youth with long black unkempt hair | The man looked tired and unkempt.
    slob noun [countable] informal someone who is extremely untidy but does not seem to care that they are: Jo’s such a slob – how can you live like that? | If you keep dressing like a slob, no one’s ever going to ask you for a date.

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slob2 verb (past tense and past participle slobbed, present participle slobbing)
     
slob around/out phrasal verb British English informal
  to spend time doing nothing and being lazy


Slob
Slob, Wayne and Waynetta /weɪˈnetə/
two humorous characters invented by Harry Enfield for his British television programme in the 1990s. They are stereotypes (=people who represent a fixed idea of what a particular type of person is like) of British people of the lowest social class. They spend their time watching television, smoking cigarettes, eating lots of pizza, and arguing. They wear unfashionable clothes and do not care about how they look.


slobBrE /slɒb/ 🔊NAmE /slɑːb/ 🔊 noun(informal, disapproving) a person who is lazy and dirty or untidy 懒惰而邋遢的人Get out of bed, you fat slob! 起床吧,你这个胖懒虫!🔊🔊
slobBrE /slɒb/ 🔊NAmE /slɑːb/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they slob BrE /slɒb/ 🔊 NAmE /slɑːb/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it slobs BrE /slɒbz/ 🔊 NAmE /slɑːbz/ 🔊past simple slobbed BrE /slɒbd/ 🔊 NAmE /slɑːbd/ 🔊past participle slobbed BrE /slɒbd/ 🔊 NAmE /slɑːbd/ 🔊 -ing form slobbing BrE /ˈslɒbɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈslɑːbɪŋ/ 🔊 ˌslob aˈround/ˈout(BrE, informal) to spend time being lazy and doing nothing 游手好闲;无所事事