Zhlubb

[Dave Monroe]

A.Word.A.Day--schlub

A.Word.A.Day--schlub

This week's theme: words from Yiddish.

schlub (shlub) noun, also spelled as zhlub or zhlob

A clumsy oaf.

[From Yiddish, from Polish zhlob (blockhead, trough,
manger).]

-Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org)

"This is ... the comedy of the schlub on the barstool
who wonders when it all went wrong." Allan Brown; The
Joke's Wearing a Bit Thin; The Sunday Times (London,
UK); Jun 18, 2006.

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/schlub.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/schlub.ram

http://wordsmith.org/words/schlub.html

Zhlubb, Richard M.

755; aka the "Adenoid"; night manager of Orpheus
Theatre on Melrose Blvd. in LA; 37th President of the
United States

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/x-z.html

http://www.pd.org/topos/perforations/perf18/pink-ont-2.html

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