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单词 slob
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Definition of slob in English:

slob

noun slɒbslɑb
  • 1informal A person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

    he's a slob and expects others to clean up after him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If slobs cannot be bothered to set aside 10 minutes to walk to the polling station then they don't deserve to have a say in who runs their affairs.
    • There's an ugly puritanical streak buried in the argument that those of us who do a good job should be rewarded and lazy slobs should be punished.
    • We're not all lazy slobs like Channel 4 seem to want us to be.
    • One hotel is now offering to turn slobs into studs in just a weekend.
    • And the house is really badly decorated - a legacy from the people who used to own it, who were worse slobs than we are.
    • As in all widely practiced human endeavors, hunting has its share of bad actors, its poachers, slobs and louts.
    • It was also delightful to hear the out of shape slobs swearing at and criticising the highly fit athletes on the pitch.
    • Mary Allison is warning that toddlers are being turned into slobs by parents who do not make them take exercise.
    • They were asking for lazy, fat slobs who do nothing at home to apply.
    • The four bouncers go for a night on the town, playing more than 20 different characters, from giggly girls to drunken slobs, set against the glitzy glamour of the nightclub scene.
    • Sex discrimination meant the exclusion of one sex (almost invariably women) from equal salaries or promotion prospects; it was not trivialised into a crusade for women to dress as men and men to dress as slobs.
    • Of course, she had always known she would have a roommate, but after all the dorm horror stories about slobs and inconsiderate people, she hadn't expected it to be this pleasant.
    • Of course, I also think that Britain is a nation of inarticulate, pugilistic slobs.
    • We are not a nation of slobs, but it's a sad, sobering fact that the majority of tourists only see the bars or beaches when they are on holidays.
    • ‘I'm told there are no slobs or yobs over 2,000 ft, they can't exist in the pure air,’ he grins.
    • For evidence of our sloth, see the newly published report from the British Heart Foundation which reveals that we are raising a generation of slobs with a third of all under-sevens failing to reach the minimum recommended activity levels.
    • We are a bunch of slobs with an expensive product that gets less useful and interesting by the day.
    • There are regular complaints about drunken slobs congregating in the Cathedral Close every summer.
    • Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
    • It is part of a drive to market the players as athletes and darts as a proper sport rather than a pub game enjoyed by slobs.
    Synonyms
    layabout, good-for-nothing, sluggard, slug, laggard
    lout, oaf
    informal slacker, couch potato, pig
    British informal slummock, yob, chav
    North American informal schlump, bum, lardass
    archaic sloven, lurdan
  • 2Irish mass noun Muddy land.

    〈爱尔兰〉烂泥地

verb slɒbslɑb
[no object]British informal
  • Behave in a lazy and slovenly way.

    〈非正式〉懒汉;粗人;邋遢鬼

    he spent his life watching television and generally slobbing around
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The serene white rooms, with pale stone floors and often only one or two pieces of furniture hint at the kind of control that doesn't allow slobbing, lolling or any other kind of self-indulgence.
    • I don't watch much television, but recently I've been forcing myself not to think too much in the evenings, and slobbed out in front of the box seems like an ideal location for achieving a state of non-thought.
    • The favoured format would show them the covert video of them slobbing out and show them how content and real they look.
    • You probably had a ‘reading list’ or something that was supposed to fill your time, but you just skimmed through the most important books on your last afternoon and spent the rest of the time slobbing.
    • Yesterday I slobbed all day and just played on the laptop in bed.
    • Which is what happens when you slob around in your pyjamas until 6pm.
    • Susannah is probably, at this moment, slobbing about at home in fluted-sleeve, v-necked pyjamas, champagne glass in hand.
    • Thank you for bringing this side of his character into the public eye - it gives him a whole new dimension as he slobs out in front of the television and morphs into the sofa.
    • It's a response to the bloated inertia of the Christmas holiday period, a time when slobbing out in front of the telly becomes a national sport.
    • I just want to slob out a bit, play computer games and not use my brain for a while.
    • Those women who slob around in shapeless tracksuits and trainers, looking so grotesque that you can't believe they have the nerve to leave the house, are probably going to outlive us all.
    • Spent afternoon catching up on gossip, and generally slobbing around and eating pizza.
    • The only problem with slobbing out for the day or having a slugfest as Kelly likes to call it is that you don't have much to write about the next day.
    • They slobbed out on the back seat of the upper deck.
    • She can't stop her obese son from pigging out on candy bars, or slobbing in front of TV.
    • I would be slobbing out in my arm chair and she'd be curled up on the settee.
    • I go two or three times a week instead of just slobbing in front of the TV.
    • If parents slob about and just don't care whether you eat or don't, learn or don't, damage other people's property or don't, then youngsters just haven't a prayer.
    • The general consensus is that there will be a decent chance of showers on Sunday, so Londonist's advice is to get all your beer garden drinking done by Sunday afternoon so Monday's free for a bit of hangover slobbing in front of the TV.
    • I spent the day doing as little as possible, just slobbing around listening to sounds without the tracks skipping or jumping, and then reported to a pub at six o'clock as per instructions.

Derivatives

  • slobbish

  • adjective ˈslɒbɪʃˈslɑbɪʃ
    informal
    • Lazy and having low standards of cleanliness.

      a slobbish slacker
      Example sentencesExamples
      • your slobbish ways will cause relationship troubles for you one day
      • You forget about the noisy love-making through rice paper-thin walls, the noisy parties, the slobbish behaviour - even if you were the main culprit all those years ago.
      • Things are put into perspective, the slobbish armchair critics who howl with outrage over the ‘disgrace’ of the ‘Canes need to settle down.
      • But even if a ‘laziness gene’ were discovered, it would be up to us to decide whether to submit fatalistically to our slobbish blueprint, or try to fight back.
  • slobbishness

  • nounˈslɒbɪʃnəsˈslɑbɪʃnəs
    informal
    • Not that it's unusual to have a sewing machine, but you'd think that this level of slobbishness and squalor would be difficult to reconcile with the sewing-machine-owning kind of lifestyle.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He attained this perfection of slobbishness by eating tonnes of junk food, and doing no exercise at all.
      • Perhaps it is better to characterize it as a radical, even revolutionary act: not slobbishness, but an active rejection of the slavish conformism and caste-mindedness that seems to dominate the country, today.
  • slobby

  • adjectiveslobbiest, slobbier ˈslɒbiˈslɑbi
    informal
    • Lazy and having low standards of cleanliness.

      a slobby tourist blithely tosses his sweet wrapper on to the floor
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Kate's away at a family gathering today, so I'm going to have a very slobby day and watch various films.
      • Some of us can get quite slobby - and others can become quite obsessive.
      • Visually, he's every inch the floppy-haired, slobby cameraman but as the film progresses it becomes obvious that Noah is anything but the standard male lead.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Irish slab 'mud', from Anglo-Irish slab 'ooze, sludge', probably of Scandinavian origin.

Rhymes

blob, bob, cob, dob, fob, glob, gob, hob, job, lob, mob, nob, rob, snob, sob, squab, stob, swab, throb, yob

Definition of slob in US English:

slob

nounsläbslɑb
informal
  • A person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If slobs cannot be bothered to set aside 10 minutes to walk to the polling station then they don't deserve to have a say in who runs their affairs.
    • Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
    • ‘I'm told there are no slobs or yobs over 2,000 ft, they can't exist in the pure air,’ he grins.
    • And the house is really badly decorated - a legacy from the people who used to own it, who were worse slobs than we are.
    • As in all widely practiced human endeavors, hunting has its share of bad actors, its poachers, slobs and louts.
    • It is part of a drive to market the players as athletes and darts as a proper sport rather than a pub game enjoyed by slobs.
    • There are regular complaints about drunken slobs congregating in the Cathedral Close every summer.
    • The four bouncers go for a night on the town, playing more than 20 different characters, from giggly girls to drunken slobs, set against the glitzy glamour of the nightclub scene.
    • We're not all lazy slobs like Channel 4 seem to want us to be.
    • There's an ugly puritanical streak buried in the argument that those of us who do a good job should be rewarded and lazy slobs should be punished.
    • Sex discrimination meant the exclusion of one sex (almost invariably women) from equal salaries or promotion prospects; it was not trivialised into a crusade for women to dress as men and men to dress as slobs.
    • Of course, she had always known she would have a roommate, but after all the dorm horror stories about slobs and inconsiderate people, she hadn't expected it to be this pleasant.
    • Mary Allison is warning that toddlers are being turned into slobs by parents who do not make them take exercise.
    • One hotel is now offering to turn slobs into studs in just a weekend.
    • Of course, I also think that Britain is a nation of inarticulate, pugilistic slobs.
    • They were asking for lazy, fat slobs who do nothing at home to apply.
    • It was also delightful to hear the out of shape slobs swearing at and criticising the highly fit athletes on the pitch.
    • We are a bunch of slobs with an expensive product that gets less useful and interesting by the day.
    • We are not a nation of slobs, but it's a sad, sobering fact that the majority of tourists only see the bars or beaches when they are on holidays.
    • For evidence of our sloth, see the newly published report from the British Heart Foundation which reveals that we are raising a generation of slobs with a third of all under-sevens failing to reach the minimum recommended activity levels.
    Synonyms
    layabout, good-for-nothing, sluggard, slug, laggard
verbsläbslɑb
[no object]British informal
  • Behave in a lazy and slovenly way.

    〈非正式〉懒汉;粗人;邋遢鬼

    he spent his life watching television and generally slobbing around
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The favoured format would show them the covert video of them slobbing out and show them how content and real they look.
    • I go two or three times a week instead of just slobbing in front of the TV.
    • The serene white rooms, with pale stone floors and often only one or two pieces of furniture hint at the kind of control that doesn't allow slobbing, lolling or any other kind of self-indulgence.
    • Spent afternoon catching up on gossip, and generally slobbing around and eating pizza.
    • Which is what happens when you slob around in your pyjamas until 6pm.
    • If parents slob about and just don't care whether you eat or don't, learn or don't, damage other people's property or don't, then youngsters just haven't a prayer.
    • I just want to slob out a bit, play computer games and not use my brain for a while.
    • Yesterday I slobbed all day and just played on the laptop in bed.
    • You probably had a ‘reading list’ or something that was supposed to fill your time, but you just skimmed through the most important books on your last afternoon and spent the rest of the time slobbing.
    • It's a response to the bloated inertia of the Christmas holiday period, a time when slobbing out in front of the telly becomes a national sport.
    • They slobbed out on the back seat of the upper deck.
    • She can't stop her obese son from pigging out on candy bars, or slobbing in front of TV.
    • Those women who slob around in shapeless tracksuits and trainers, looking so grotesque that you can't believe they have the nerve to leave the house, are probably going to outlive us all.
    • Thank you for bringing this side of his character into the public eye - it gives him a whole new dimension as he slobs out in front of the television and morphs into the sofa.
    • I don't watch much television, but recently I've been forcing myself not to think too much in the evenings, and slobbed out in front of the box seems like an ideal location for achieving a state of non-thought.
    • Susannah is probably, at this moment, slobbing about at home in fluted-sleeve, v-necked pyjamas, champagne glass in hand.
    • I spent the day doing as little as possible, just slobbing around listening to sounds without the tracks skipping or jumping, and then reported to a pub at six o'clock as per instructions.
    • The general consensus is that there will be a decent chance of showers on Sunday, so Londonist's advice is to get all your beer garden drinking done by Sunday afternoon so Monday's free for a bit of hangover slobbing in front of the TV.
    • I would be slobbing out in my arm chair and she'd be curled up on the settee.
    • The only problem with slobbing out for the day or having a slugfest as Kelly likes to call it is that you don't have much to write about the next day.

Origin

Late 18th century: from Irish slab ‘mud’, from Anglo-Irish slab ‘ooze, sludge’, probably of Scandinavian origin.

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