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schlump, n. slang (chiefly U.S.).|ʃlʊmp|
Also schloomp, shlump.
[App. a Yiddish formation; cf. Yiddish shlumperdik dowdy, cogn. w. G. Schlumpe slattern.]
A dull-witted, slow, or slovenly person; a slob; a fool. Freq. used as a term of affectionate abuse.
1948Life 15 Mar. 23/2 Schlump is a friendlier, more sympathetic term than ‘schmo’, which has completely replaced ‘jerk’. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 350 That shlump can depress anyone. 1979J. Heller Good as Gold viii. 350 Kissinger would not be recalled in history as a Bismarck..but as an odious shlump who made war gladly. 1980Washington Post 20 Nov. f1/1 She was the All-American schlump, the ‘she's so pretty, too bad she can't lose some weight’ working girl, the patron saint of imperfect. 1986Daily News (N.Y.) 23 May (Suppl.) 10/1, I laughed at a poor schlump being gobbled up by a giant Venus flytrap. 1987S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 39 To Dad, Benn was a schlump, an incompetent. |