Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person regarded as clumsy, stupid, or unattractive.
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- noun informal A person who is socially
awkward ,unattractive ,clumsy , oroafish .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rob Schneider, whose Saturday Night Live heyday seems a pitifully distant memory right about now, stars as the title schlub, a fussy nerd who somehow landed a gorgeous Mexican-American bride the innocuous Claudia Bassols after a six-week courtship.
Thursday TV in Review: Rotten Rob, Finder, Person of Interest and More 2012
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Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) was a forgettable schlub, which is good for the character, not so much for someone I'm supposed to want to watch on a movie screen.
RVABlogs 2009
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Maybe this is because Maddux, 29, is physically unremarkable-a six-foot, 175-pound, bespectacled, self-pro-fessed "schlub" who enjoys virtual anonymity when he walks his Shih Tzus in his hometown Las Vegas.
Mastery On The Mound 2008
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There was this compelling quality in his "schlub" of an Everyman's need to believe in his client's innocence, as if it would also bring him salvation as well.
COURTING CROSSOVERS Toby O'B 2005
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Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) was a forgettable schlub, which is good for the character, not so much for someone I’m supposed to want to watch on a movie screen.
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The "schlub" with the pothole in front of his house wants to know how he can fix it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Christina Gagnier 2010
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MB: Is there a schlub-Jewish connection beyond the fact that 'schlub' is a Yiddish word?
Articles 2008
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I could go line-by-line to demonstrate the obvious bias of the story, but perhaps the best example, after the "schlub" remark, is the revelation that "Two women who dated Limbaugh ... said ...
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Or do you really believe every schlub has to carry a portable chemlab?
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Or do you really believe every schlub has to carry a portable chemlab?
whichbe commented on the word schlub
(Yiddish) A worthless person, a jerk, an oaf. Also shlub.
May 13, 2008