Date:  Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:30:18 -0600

From:  Samuel Jones <smjones1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU>

Subject: Re: Schluppy



TO: Rudy Troike



So, think maybe on the noun SCHLOOMP (It's close in sound? A jettisoned

bilabial continuant ?) = a sloppy incompetent.



>From my ANGLISH/YINGLISH volume (Bluestein, Gene. University of

Georgia Press, 1989).



"To Dad, Benn was a schlump, an incompetent, his list of failings,

his confused relations with women, made him on a charitable view a

fun figure." (Saul Bellow, MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK. 1987)



>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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