Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A person regarded as clumsy, stupid, or unattractive.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who is socially awkward, unattractive, clumsy, or oafish.
Etymologies
- Yiddish, from Polish żłób, trough, blockhead.
Examples
“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The "schlub" with the pothole in front of his house wants to know how he can fix it.”
“MB: Is there a schlub-Jewish connection beyond the fact that 'schlub' is a Yiddish word?”
“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 ...”
“Or do you really believe every schlub has to carry a portable chemlab?”
“Or do you really believe every schlub has to carry a portable chem lab?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘schlub’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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words that just sound funny
maybe it's just me but these words are fun to say or make me laugh or smile
monangahela, sisyphus, schlub, sassafrass, lollapalooza, mulligrubs, hoity-toity, hashmagandy, zenzizenzizenzic, addlepated, nincompoop, brouhaha and 3 more...
whichbe (Yiddish) A worthless person, a jerk, an oaf. Also shlub. May 12, 2008