Date:  Fri, 16 Feb 1996 18:52:30 -0800

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: Schluppy (ZHLUB)



Make that zhlubby.



Zhlub rhymes with rub but it is also used as zhlob to rhyme with "daub."

Fom Slavic: zhlob, "coarse fellow."



1. An insensitive, ill-mannered person. "He acts like a zhlub, that zhlub."



2. A clumsy, gauche, graceless person. "Vassar-Shmasser, the girl's still a

zhlub."



3. An oaf, a yokel, a bumpkin. "What can you expect from such a zhlub?"



Also see klutz, bulvon, graub.



>From The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten



SETH SKLAREY

Wittgenstein school of Yiddish transliteration

Coconut Grove, Florida

crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ix.netcom.com





>I encountered the term <schluppy> in the newspaper this morning, in the

>phrase <schluppy men>, as ones who would not be good enough for a womal

>(<woman) like Christie Brinkley. It sounds like a Yiddishism, but is not

>among the words christened in the 10th Merriam Webster's Collegiate which

>I have at hand. Any translations?

>    --Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)

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