slobbyadj.
/ˈslɒbi/, U.S. /ˈslɑbi/ 1. Muddy, marshy, miry. Now rare.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [adjective]
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muddyc1450
lutulentc1600
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luteous1656
sludgy1782
slubby1823
slaky?1841
slobby1843
muddyish1853
1843 A. Sutton Oriya Dict. III. 97/1 A wet or slobby place, a flash.
1897 J. Cordeaux in H. O. Forbes et al. Brit. Birds with their Nests & Eggs IV. 153 The grasses which grow on the slobby foreshores.
1905 Irish Monthly Apr. 182 An Irish country congregation gathering for Mass on a wet Sunday, trudging in bad boots along slobby roads.
1949 B. MacMahon Lion-Tamer & other Stories (1958) 66 The strand ended on a slobby estuary of a river.
1981 Poetry Austral. May 28 The river slubbers, lapping at the slobby mudflats, slopping rotting rats and bottles.
2. That is, resembles, or behaves like a slob; of, relating to, or characteristic of a slob; now chiefly lazy, slovenly.Recorded earliest in slobby-looking.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > clumsy stupidity, oafishness > [adjective]
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lubberly1580
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slobbish1833
joulter1854
landlubberly1860
slobby1872
1872 Evening News (Indianapolis) 27 Sept. Nathan is described as ‘thin, soft and slobby-looking, and evidently adverse to ablutionary practices. His wife, who is an able-bodied daughter of Israel, could easily take him on her knee and spank him soundly.’
1905 Washington Post 16 July 4/7 Their establishments were almost always operated in a clumsy and slobby fashion.
1925 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Crimimal Law & Criminol. 16 136 When received at the institution she was fat, slobby, dirty, crying, childish in all her responses.
1967 Spectator 4 Aug. 131/1 To be honest, backbone isn't, as it were, at the forefront of my character. I am pretty slobby within.
1970 W. S. Burroughs, Jr. Speed (1971) v. 108 Vicki told me that I looked like a slobby bum.
1976 W. Goldman Magic iii. ix. 181 She'd end up stranded some place maybe with..some slobby dummy.
1976 New Yorker 9 Feb. 84/3 Peter Boyle's role is small, but..he does slobby wonders with his scenes as the gently thick Wizard.
1990 Daily Mail 6 Dec. 48/2 Not a book you can read in a slobby way, it calls for a bit of a straight back.
2019 Parramatta (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 10 July 5 Four young people living in a share house might conjure scenes of non-stop parties and slobby living but for those on the brink of homelessness, it's like a castle.
3. Characterized by (excessive) sentimentality; sentimental, mawkish, soppy. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective]
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mawkish1702
sickly1766
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Christmas card1860
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slobbery1875
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sloppy1883
slushy1889
sentimentalistic1904
marshmallowy1907
hearts and flowers1911
slobby1913
soppy1918
meltyc1921
lavender1928
saccharescent1930
schmaltzya1934
sloshy1933
gooey1935
icky1938
cheesy1943
drippy1952
soupy1953
squishy1953
saccharined1962
gloopy1965
yechy1969
yucky1970
sucky1971
yuck1971
schmoozy1976
1913 R. Brooke Let. 3 July (1968) 479 I had a bad fit of home-sickness this morning... I threw up quite a lot of slobby old memories.
1945 Congress. Rec. 21 Nov. App. A5049/3 The United States Congress, in a gush of slobby sentimentality, rushed through approval of Bretton Woods, Great Britain has not yet approved it.
1962 E. F. Russell Great Explosion (1975) 35 Always prating about honesty, truthfulness and such-like slobby stuff.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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