shlump
Pronunciations
Shlump | (SHLUMP) | listen |
Definitions
n. An unkempt person, a loser.
Example Sentences
"“I was a young kid, and I dress like a schlump, and I didn’t have, like, a fancy office or I didn’t look the part or whatever,” Kirschenbaum says." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Who Uses This
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
Regions
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
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Dictionaries
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
schlump, shloomp, shlomp
Notes
May come from שלומפּערדיק shlumperdik 'dowdy' and the noun שלומפּער shlumper
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