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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink 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 (garg AT wordsmith.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. X-Bonus 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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