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shlubb

shlubb 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 shlubb

pluralshlubbs

Questions about shlubb

What is shlubb the alternative spelling of?
Shlubb is the alternative spelling of schlub.

Words near shlubb in the dictionary

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

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