slob

CEFRC1

/ˈslɒb/

noun · verb

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What if God was one of us / Just a slob like one of us
[…] save the placid Jemima who slobbed along as slowly and comfortable as a well-fatted pig returning from feeding-trough to stye.
I could not understand his intense feeling for his smelly hounds, with their horrible yelping and slobbing mouths.

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What if God was one of us / Just a slob like one of us
1995, Eric Bazilian, “One of Us”, in Relish, performed by Joan Osborne
[…] save the placid Jemima who slobbed along as slowly and comfortable as a well-fatted pig returning from feeding-trough to stye.
1880, “Our Jemimas” […], page 12
Mitch slobbed down on to the sofa and plonked a foot on the table, his ankle right next to the offending device.
2008, Nick Oldham, Crunch Time, →ISBN
For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness.
1962, John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, page 20
There’s nothin’ sweeter than slobbing in front of crap TV after a hard day’s work … There is nothing worse than slobbing in front of crap TV after a hard day’s nothing.
2015, Tom Boland, Ray Griffin, “A Telling Silence: Beckett, Kafka, and the Experience of Being Unemployed”, in Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson, editors, Untold Stories in Organizations, →ISBN, page 95

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From Irish slaba. Compare slobber, which is of Germanic origin.