slob

slob
slob 1780, "mud, muddy land," from Ir. slab "mud," itself probably borrowed from English slab "muddy place" (c.1600), from a Scandinavian source (Cf. Icelandic slabb "sludge"). The meaning "untidy person" is first recorded 1861.

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