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单词 schlepper
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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).
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