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Jul 20, 2006

This week's theme
Words from Yiddish

This week's words
yenta
schmooze
maven
schlub
shtick

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schlub

(shlub) also spelled as zhlub or zhlob

noun: A clumsy oaf.

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

"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.

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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. -Emily Carr, artist and writer (1871-1945)

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