The Consummate Manager

davemarc davemarc at panix.com
Tue Apr 15 09:07:15 CDT 1997


> From: stencil <stencil at bcn.net>
> 
> - Richard M(ilhous) Zhlubb - does his name have a meaning in any
> slavic/semitic/turkic language?  And/or does it relate to Glubb Pasha
> or the producer Golub?

zhlub n (also schlub or shlub or shlubbo or zhlob or zshlub)  A coarse
person; a boorish man; = JERK, SLOB:  the presence of fine wines and the
absence of shlubs--Philadelphia/ replied Angela as she glided off to cut
the poor schlub out of her will--Newsweek/ Lieberman was the worst. 
Lieberman was a real zshlub--Joseph Heller [fr Yiddish fr Slavic, "coarse
fellow"]

>From *American Slang* by Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D. (A doctor, yet!)

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