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▪ I. slob, n.1|slɒb|
[Mainly a. Irish slab (slɒb) mud, slab n.2; but cf. also slobber n. and Du. slobbe, Fris. slobbe, slob clout, swab, slut.]
Chiefly in Irish use, or with reference to Ireland.
1. a. Mud, esp. soft mud on the sea-shore; ooze; muddy land.
1780Young Tour Irel. II. 75 Under the slob or sea ooze he dug some very fine blue marle. 1828Croker Leg. S. Irel. ii. 188 Being very near plumping into the river..and being stuck up to the middle..in the slob. 1879W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. xv. 163 Landing on the Essex shore, he hid himself in the slob. 1882Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Irel. 26 When the birds gather on an island of slob..at about half-tide.
b. A stretch of mud or ooze.
1842S. C. Hall Ireland II. 178 The same master Ned I tended duck-shooting over the slobs. 1860Athenæum 28 Jan. 134 Those vast tracts..were then extensive slobs, covered with water at every tide. 1884Macm. Mag. Sept. 357 Like some fair river which..ends its course amid dull flats and muddy slobs.
c. A sloppy mass; a mess.
1885Reports Provinc., Devon 108 (E.D.D.), That gravel, when wet, will make a slob.
d. Canad. = slob-ice, sense 4 below.
1878North Star (St. John's, Newfoundland) 30 Mar. 3/1 The bay here was caught over last week, and a string of ‘slob’ made its appearance across the mouth, but the heavy sea of Thursday broke it all up. 1907J. G. Millais Newfoundland ii. 44 They themselves had hooked seventeen white coats out o' the slob (shore ice). 1920W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor ix. 174 This ice is of very different qualities. Now it is ‘slob’ mixed with snow born on the Newfoundland coast. 1951Beaver Sept. 20 Wind half a gale, temperature away down and slob in harbour and around schooner turning to ice.
2. A large soft worm, used in angling.
1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 96 A gentleman was angling with the maiden slob for trout. 1890in D. A. Simmons S. Donegal Gloss.
3. A dull, slow, or untidy person; a careless or negligent workman; a lout, a fat person; one who is gullible or excessively soft-hearted, a fool; a person of little account. slang.
1861A. H. Clington Frank O'Donnell 101 A heavy-looking poor slob of a man. 1863Le Fanu House by Church-yard I. v. 65 The Lord Mayor, a fat slob of a fellow. 1887T. E. Brown Doctor 187 The dirty mob Of a cap that was at her—Aw a reglar slob. 1894Union Printer (N.Y.) 21 Apr. 5/3 (Standard Dict.), It is easier for a good man to set 40,000 ems a night than it is for a slob to set 20,000. 1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 252/2 Slob, a person easy to impose upon; an untidy person. 1904G. V. Hobart Jim Hickey i. 16 You're a warm young guy When you start to buy—You're a slob when you lose the price! 1927H. V. Morton In Search of England x. 185 He was no beauty to look at, but then women seem to like the ugly slobs, don't they? 1938R. Flannagan County Court 36 That praying old slob, Jones, has three boys and every one of 'em has run away. 1950Wodehouse Nothing Serious 29 ‘The poor old slob,’ she murmured. 1953If; Worlds of Sci. Fiction Sept. 40/1 Speaking..as an ordinary slob that doesn't follow rarefied reasoning very well. 1958S. Ellin Eighth Circle ii. xv. 123 A big, fat, gutless, slob. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 168 The unfortunate fat boy..is known as:..slob, [etc.]. 1960‘E. McBain’ Heckler v. 60 There are people.. who always look like slobs... The tendency toward sloppiness first exhibits itself when the subject is still a child. 1966A. Cavanaugh Children are Gone ii. vi. 49 ‘I'm a slob,’ Shirley said. ‘I'm not an intellectual.’ 1970R. Price Gt. Roob Revolution 7 The hucksters who control the..mass media think they are manipulating what they refer to as ‘the slobs’. 1972T. P. McMahon Issue of Bishop's Blood (1973) ii. 17 He's a real slob for his employees. He buys them houses, goes to their bar mitzvahs. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp ix. 184, I think you're an irresponsible slob.
4. attrib. (in sense 1), as slob-weir; slob ice orig. Canad., densely-packed, sludgy ice, esp. sea ice; slob trout, a brown trout, Salmo trutta, which stays in a river estuary instead of going further out to sea.
1835E. Wix Six Months Newfoundland Missionary's Jrnl. (1836) 16, I crossed through the ‘*slob ice’, which was very thick in Conception Bay, to Port de Grave. 1920W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor vi. 132 The slob ice had already made ballicaters and the biting cold of winter so far north had set in with all its vigour. 1955Sci. Amer. Apr. 52/3 On the way to Little America, its first Antarctic port of call, the Atka saw very little of the drifting ice pack that surrounds the continent. It passed through a few ‘bergy bits’ and pieces of ‘slob ice’—melting remnants of the pack. 1965F. Russell Secret Islands vii. 88 The island was isolated because it was surrounded by impassable slob ice.
1907W. L. Calderwood Life of Salmon i. 6 In the West of Ireland we have..the so-called *slob trout. 1930G. H. Nall Life Sea Trout vi. 75 These brown Trout, feeding in brackish and salt water, are numerous, and special names have been given to them, such as ‘Slob Trout’, and ‘Estuarine Trout’. 1960C. Willock Angler's Encycl. 190/1 Slob-trout: sometimes called bull trout, are brown trout that migrate only as far as the estuary.
1851Newland The Erne p. viii, The destruction of the intrusive *slob-weirs.
▪ II. slob, n.2 rare.|slɒb|
[var. of slab n.1]
A slab of timber.
1776G. Semple Building in Water 32 You may Spike on the Slob or Plank. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss., Slob, an outside board, ‘a shide’.
▪ III. slob, v.|slɒb|
[f. slob n.1]
trans. To slop (out); to express by slobbering. So ˈslobbed ppl. a.
1887Parish & Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 152 Slobbed, slopped, spilt. a1918W. Owen Poems (1963) 69 Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish. 1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 56 The master began to slob out the tapioca. |