slobby
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slobby (comparative slobbier, superlative slobbiest)
- Slobbish.
- 1972, anonymous author, Go Ask Alice:
- I've put on seven ugly, fat, sloppy, slobby pounds and I don't have anything I can wear. I'm beginning to look as slobby as I feel.
- 1981, Robert Westall, The Scarecrows:
- He'd thought Joe Moreton a great slobby lump; and Joe had not been a great slobby lump. Joe Moreton at least was a man.
- Slobbery.
- 1998, Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman:
- A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar […]
- 2001, Gillian Cross, The Dark Behind the Curtain:
- All chewed and slobby with spit. He must have taken huge bites. Like someone starving.
- (Canada) Slushy, like slob ice.
- 2003, Michael Crummey, Flesh and Blood, page 38:
- They had to run for his father and then launch a skiff into the slobby ice, half poling, half hauling toward the spot where he'd last been seen […]