The Consummate Manager

[davemarc]

> Author:  "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com> 
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> 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!)

> From: Bruce Appelbaum <Bruce_Appelbaum at chemsystems.com>
> 
>      Possibly the derivation of the word "slob"
> 
There's a clear resemblance.  But I'm finding roots of "slob" in
Anglo-Irish and, to a lesser degree, Danish, Scandanavian, and Icelandic
language.  But, mind you, I'm merely using Dictionaries here--and the OED
is not even among them!  I'm sure the truth can be found elsewhere.  Like,
maybe, Das Kapital.

davemarc