He was always telling Mother that I needed to be something other than an illiterate slob and the least they could do was allow me to go to the library once a week.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
Much of the rich flat land which lies along the railway from Wexford to Rosslare Harbour was reclaimed by this Redmond's enterprise from tidal slob.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
The packed "slob" was "running abroad," as the fisher-folk say.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo