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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-BonusYou 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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