schlub

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Definitions

  • n. A coarse, bad-mannered, clumsy person.

Example Sentences

  • "Jet lagged and wearing wrinkled clothing with a pair of dark undereye circles to match, I was prepared to feel like a schlub in a stylish setting, slumped on an uncomfortable couch as I waited for my room to be ready." (source)

  • “He acts like a zhlob, that zhlob.” (NJY)

  • “Vassar-Shmassar, the girl’s still a zhlob.” (NJY)

  • “What can you expect from such a zhlob?” (NJY)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y זשלאָב zhlob 'boor, brute'

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      shlub, zhlob, zhlub, shlob, schlob

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