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slobby

slobby

1 8.8
A person who is always messy and does not clean up
  • noun
  • /ˈslɑːbi/
  • Offensive
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  • Lily felt embarrassed for her because she looked sort of slobby.

Examples

  • It means a grown-up coat that doesn't make you look like a slobby fourth former on a field trip.

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  • I think you've been smokin' too much of that peace pipe, kemo-slobby.

  • A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar, and because the two dogs didn't want to be apart, the smiling, teary-eyed families who owned each dog had to decide what to do about this awkward situation, but then the dogs ran away together.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar, and because the two dogs didn't want to be apart, the smiling, teary-eyed families who owned each dog had to decide what to do about this awkward situation, but then the dogs ran away together.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Obviously, women won't want to sleep with Slobby McSlobberstien, who doesn't care about how he looks, but she will if her mark has a small crease in his shirt or if his double Windsor knot in his tie is coming undone.

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  • The fat lardarse husband is a slobby person, has the intellectual prowess of dead crawfish, messes up royally at every turn, and yet is "endearingly cute and sweet," while the wife is expected to be "hot and sexy," run the household, and clean up after that fat person that isn't funny at all.

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  • After his messy party, John was often called a slobby person by his friends.

  • The students were warned not to be slobby if they wanted to give a good impression during their presentation.

  • She scrunched up her face at the slobby man who walked into the cafe, crumbs falling from his shirt.

Synonyms

slob
vsslobby
  • Offensive
58 3.1

A person who is messy and does not care about their clothes or home

is more informal and rude, stressing poor cleanliness
schlub
vsslobby
  • Offensive
8 9.9

A person who is lazy, messy, and a little socially awkward

is a rude informal term about poor cleanliness rather than social awkwardness
sloven
vsslobby
  • Offensive
1 9.6

A person who is often untidy and not clean

is an informal rude label focusing on careless cleanliness

Antonyms

neat-freak
  • Informal
7 7.9

A person who likes to keep things very clean and tidy

How Messy

hoarder
18 5.5
slobby
  • Offensive
1 8.8
slob
  • Offensive
58 3.1

Surface Forms

slobby singular
slobbies plural

Morphology

slobby = slob (transparent) = slob + y

The word is transparently built from 'slob' plus the common adjectival/person-characterizing suffix '-y', so the meaning is easy to recover from the base word.

Etymology

Slobby as a noun comes from slob (a messy or lazy person) with the ending -y added. A helpful image is to think of slob as like slop ('dirty liquid'), so a slobby is a person who is always untidy or careless.