| 释义 |
schlub U.S. slang.|ʃlʌb|
Also shlub.
[Yiddish, perh. ad. Pol. żłób blockhead.]
A worthless person, a ‘jerk’, an oaf.
1964‘E. McBain’ Ax viii. 149 ‘Kaplowitz,’ I say, ‘are you a janitor or a schlub? I'm a janitor... And such a dirty basement I can't stand.’ 1969D. E. Westlake Up your Banners (1970) v. 39 When a man..doesn't know the facts and nobody will tell him..and people keep throwing apples and unkind remarks at him, he has no choice but to look like a shlub. 1970R. H. Greenan Nightmare in Colour (1971) xxxii. 114 He backed out—can you imagine? Hired a couple of college shlubs. 1978N.Y. Times Book Rev. 2 Apr. 22 After bearing two children of the real-estate shlub, Earl Jr. |