Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A person regarded as clumsy, stupid, or unattractive.
Wiktionary
- n. informal A person who is socially awkward, unattractive, clumsy, or oafish.
Etymologies
- From Yiddish זשלאָב (zhlob). Compare Russian жлоб. (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish, from Polish żłób, trough, blockhead. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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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Sound Effects You Didn't Know You Needed
Lesser-known onomatopoeias (or things that sound like they ought to be onomatopoeias but aren't), ripe for use in parodies of the Adam West Batman series.
gloomth, spilth, glunch, flub, spramp, sough, gorp, guff, tump, kerrang, bork, flan and 12 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...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
idiot, cretin, moron, dimwit, nincompoop, meathead, addlepate, dingbat, dumbbell, dunce, fool, halfwit and 31 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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Negative
caitiff, valetudinarian, fell, whiffler, attercop, Shaitan, Jezebel, desultory, panjandrum, limmer, cockalorum, laodicean and 91 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Vaguesswork
Things held by a weaselspeaker. (Katigans without the madeupicals.)
obfuscation, obtuse, apparatus, element, it, existence, information, point, substance, stuff, sometimes, person and 47 more...
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Ooooh, burn!
Obscure insults
dotard, nescient, goatsucker, scrofulous, faineant, pinguid, milquetoast, sleazo, varlet, jollux, rixatrix, sciolist and 46 more...
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Yiddish
I tend to use a lot of Yiddish words on a daily basis. I honestly don't know why.
bupkis, chutzpah, verklempt, kibbitz, klutz, kvetch, megillah, mensch, meshugana, putz, schlub, schmaltz and 11 more...
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Schmuck
schmuck, nebbish, schlemiel, schmo, klutz, schnook, kvetch, meshuggener, noodge, nudnik, pisher, putz and 5 more...
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Yiddish
schlub, kvetch, nuchshlepper, schlimazel, schlemiel, gleek, yeshiva, shtup, meshuga
Tweets
Looking for tweets for schlub.
whichbe (Yiddish) A worthless person, a jerk, an oaf. Also shlub. May 12, 2008