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schlob

schlob is the alternative form of schlub.

Meaning of schlub

Noun

schlub (plural schlubs)

  1. (Jewish, New-York-City, derogatory, informal, slang) A person who is clumsy, oafish, socially awkward, unattractive or unkempt.
    • It wasn’t sufficient for Mother to use the rolling pin on that hapless brother of mine; she’d also call him Zlob, or Cham, another Polish term for an awkward peasant, something that a son of a nice Jewish family should never be.2000, Frank Stiffel, The Oxymoron Factor – Franek: Stranger in My Land, Viking, →ISBN

Forms of schlob

pluralschlobs

Questions about schlob

What is schlob the alternative form of?
Schlob is the alternative form of schlub.

Words near schlob in the dictionary

  1. Schlippe's salt
  2. Schlitt
  3. Schlitts
  4. Schlitz
  5. Schlitzes
  6. schlob
  7. Schlobohm
  8. Schlobohms
  9. schlobs
  10. schlock
  11. schlockbuster

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