schleppern.

Brit.

/ˈʃlɛpə/, U.S.

/ˈʃlɛpər/

Forms: 1800s– schlepper, 1900s– schlapper, 1900s– shlepper.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Yiddish. Partly a borrowing from German. Etymons: Yiddish shlepper; German Schlepper.

Etymology: < (i) Yiddish shlepper pauper, beggar, idler, and its etymon (ii) German Schlepper vagabond posing as a priest (16th cent.), person who hauls or drags something from one place to another (late 17th cent.), person who touts for business (early 19th cent. or earlier) < schleppen to drag, to haul (see schlep v.) + -er -er suffix¹, after Middle Low German slēper.German Schlepper , in sense ‘vagabond posing as a priest’ (16th cent.), is occasionally reflected earlier in English sources from the second half of the 19th cent.:1862 Good Words 3 708/1 The Schleppers, abounding in the Black Forest, false priests who collect for an altar-cloth.1877 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 12 Aug. 11/6 The various classes of the old-time vagabonds..: The Granters, or those who feigned epilepsy, the Schleppers, or false begging priests. In quot. 1893 at sense 1 an unchanged plural, reflecting the German plural form Schlepper.

colloquial.

1. A person who schleps (in various senses of the verb); esp. a person who moves or hauls something.

ΚΠ

1893 Royal Comm. Mining Royalties: 4th Rep. App. C. xiii. 163/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 6979) XLI. 1 Wages of the ‘schlepper’.

1919 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 8 May 22/2 The schlepper... Acts as first assistant to the city marshal and the landlord and puts the piano and the family bookcase on the street.

1934 Amer. Speech 9 284/1 A customer who shops from store to store continually trying on shoes but not buying is known as a shlepper.

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Final ed.) a12/2 Wish well to the schleppers who were walking home.

2002 N.Y. Mag. 4 Feb. 44/1 She's now the proud schlepper of her own rolling suitcase.

2. A person who touts for business. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who canvasses or solicits sales

barker1699

salesman's dog1699

toutera1754

townsman1843

tout1853

canvasser1865

schlepper1894

1894 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 13 Oct. 2/8 We now have the publication of..the names and addresses of the touts, or ‘schleppers’, of the per cent gentry.

1961 A. Smith East-Enders iv. 62 There is a background of Petticoat Lane at its schmalziest, jostling figures, piled stalls, vociferous schleppers.

2012 ‘Gentle Author’ Spitalfields Life 117/2 There were schleppers everywhere on the streets—touts for tailors.

3. Originally in Jewish usage. A pauper, a beggar; an idler. More generally: a person of little worth, a fool, a loser, a jerk.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar

beggara1250

bidder1362

mendinantc1395

mendivaunt1395

craver1406

thigger1424

gangrela1450

mendicant1474

mendiant1483

eremite1495

Lazarus?a1513

truandals1523

bellyterc1540

clapperdudgeon1567

beggar-man1608

maunder1609

maunderer1611

Abraham cove1612

eleemosynary1643

mumpera1652

jockey1685

progger1685

asker1708

thigster1710

prog1828

shooler1830

cadger1851

panhandler1893

Weary Willie1896

schlepper1901

plinger1904

peg-legger1915

tapper1930

clochard1940

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > of small significance

dud1721

lightweight1831

tit1881

mess1891

schmuck1892

schmendrick1897

Little Willie1901

schlepper1901

wally1922

klutz1925

twerp1925

twit1934

jerk1935

schmo1937

shmegegge1937

schlep1939

sad sack1943

no-hoper1944

Joe Schmo1947

jerko1949

nerk1955

prat1955

schmucko1959

Herbert1960

1901 Jewish Year Bk. 5662 372 The Board of Trade..cannot discriminate between a miserly millionaire and a destitute ‘schlepper’.

1949 S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! i. 13 In vain I protested that my dependents would be reduced to beggary; the editor's face remained flinty. ‘About time those schleppers went to work,’ he grunted.

1950 G. Marx Let. 20 Mar. (1967) 72 The paupers, or schlepper crowd, still hang on to their portable radios, but unfortunately they're not the ones who buy Chryslers.

1968 L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 346 Hike up your slip; straighten your seams; you look like a shlepper.

1977 Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 46/1 I've got a message for the Penelopes of this world. It's high time they say to their Ulysseses, ‘Okay Schlepper, you've been around the world, your turn to keep the home fires burning, I'm splitting on my own trip for a while.’

2015 M. M. Epstein Skies of Parchment i. 2 I was exasperated by this schlepper, and I wanted to tell him so.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	schlepper
释义	schleppern. Brit. /ˈʃlɛpə/, U.S. /ˈʃlɛpər/ Forms: 1800s– schlepper, 1900s– schlapper, 1900s– shlepper. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Yiddish. Partly a borrowing from German. Etymons: Yiddish shlepper; German Schlepper. Etymology: < (i) Yiddish shlepper pauper, beggar, idler, and its etymon (ii) German Schlepper vagabond posing as a priest (16th cent.), person who hauls or drags something from one place to another (late 17th cent.), person who touts for business (early 19th cent. or earlier) < schleppen to drag, to haul (see schlep v.) + -er -er suffix¹, after Middle Low German slēper.German Schlepper , in sense ‘vagabond posing as a priest’ (16th cent.), is occasionally reflected earlier in English sources from the second half of the 19th cent.:1862 Good Words 3 708/1 The Schleppers, abounding in the Black Forest, false priests who collect for an altar-cloth.1877 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 12 Aug. 11/6 The various classes of the old-time vagabonds..: The Granters, or those who feigned epilepsy, the Schleppers, or false begging priests. In quot. 1893 at sense 1 an unchanged plural, reflecting the German plural form Schlepper. colloquial. 1. A person who schleps (in various senses of the verb); esp. a person who moves or hauls something. ΚΠ 1893 Royal Comm. Mining Royalties: 4th Rep. App. C. xiii. 163/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 6979) XLI. 1 Wages of the ‘schlepper’. 1919 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 8 May 22/2 The schlepper... Acts as first assistant to the city marshal and the landlord and puts the piano and the family bookcase on the street. 1934 Amer. Speech 9 284/1 A customer who shops from store to store continually trying on shoes but not buying is known as a shlepper. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Final ed.) a12/2 Wish well to the schleppers who were walking home. 2002 N.Y. Mag. 4 Feb. 44/1 She's now the proud schlepper of her own rolling suitcase. 2. A person who touts for business. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who canvasses or solicits sales barker1699 salesman's dog1699 toutera1754 townsman1843 tout1853 canvasser1865 schlepper1894 1894 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 13 Oct. 2/8 We now have the publication of..the names and addresses of the touts, or ‘schleppers’, of the per cent gentry. 1961 A. Smith East-Enders iv. 62 There is a background of Petticoat Lane at its schmalziest, jostling figures, piled stalls, vociferous schleppers. 2012 ‘Gentle Author’ Spitalfields Life 117/2 There were schleppers everywhere on the streets—touts for tailors. 3. Originally in Jewish usage. A pauper, a beggar; an idler. More generally: a person of little worth, a fool, a loser, a jerk. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar beggara1250 bidder1362 mendinantc1395 mendivaunt1395 craver1406 thigger1424 gangrela1450 mendicant1474 mendiant1483 eremite1495 Lazarus?a1513 truandals1523 bellyterc1540 clapperdudgeon1567 beggar-man1608 maunder1609 maunderer1611 Abraham cove1612 eleemosynary1643 mumpera1652 jockey1685 progger1685 asker1708 thigster1710 prog1828 shooler1830 cadger1851 panhandler1893 Weary Willie1896 schlepper1901 plinger1904 peg-legger1915 tapper1930 clochard1940 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > of small significance dud1721 lightweight1831 tit1881 mess1891 schmuck1892 schmendrick1897 Little Willie1901 schlepper1901 wally1922 klutz1925 twerp1925 twit1934 jerk1935 schmo1937 shmegegge1937 schlep1939 sad sack1943 no-hoper1944 Joe Schmo1947 jerko1949 nerk1955 prat1955 schmucko1959 Herbert1960 1901 Jewish Year Bk. 5662 372 The Board of Trade..cannot discriminate between a miserly millionaire and a destitute ‘schlepper’. 1949 S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! i. 13 In vain I protested that my dependents would be reduced to beggary; the editor's face remained flinty. ‘About time those schleppers went to work,’ he grunted. 1950 G. Marx Let. 20 Mar. (1967) 72 The paupers, or schlepper crowd, still hang on to their portable radios, but unfortunately they're not the ones who buy Chryslers. 1968 L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 346 Hike up your slip; straighten your seams; you look like a shlepper. 1977 Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 46/1 I've got a message for the Penelopes of this world. It's high time they say to their Ulysseses, ‘Okay Schlepper, you've been around the world, your turn to keep the home fires burning, I'm splitting on my own trip for a while.’ 2015 M. M. Epstein Skies of Parchment i. 2 I was exasperated by this schlepper, and I wanted to tell him so. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1893
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