Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slobby

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English

Syllables: slob-by
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

adj

Slushy, like slob ice.

Canadian usage

Example Sentences

"I've put on seven ugly, fat, sloppy, slobby pounds and I don't have anything I can wear. I'm beginning to look as slobby as I feel."
"He'd thought Joe Moreton a great slobby lump; and Joe had not been a great slobby lump. Joe Moreton at least was a man."
"A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar […]"
"All chewed and slobby with spit. He must have taken huge bites. Like someone starving."
"They had to run for his father and then launch a skiff into the slobby ice, half poling, half hauling toward the spot where he'd last been seen […]"

Etymology

From slob + -y.

Usage

Canadian usage

Inflected Forms

slobbier (comparative) slobbiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

slobbily slobbiness

Rhymes With

bobby lobby hobby robby dobby snobby nobby knobby cobby blobby gobby jobby

Questions

What does slobby mean?: Slobbish.
Where does slobby come from?: From slob + -y.

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