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shlub

shlub is the alternative spelling 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 shlub

pluralshlubs

Questions about shlub

What is shlub the alternative spelling of?
Shlub is the alternative spelling of schlub.

Words near shlub in the dictionary

  1. shloshim
  2. shlp.
  3. shlt
  4. shltr.
  5. shltrs.
  6. shlub
  7. shlubb
  8. shlubbier
  9. shlubbiest
  10. shlubbs
  11. shlubby

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