schlep

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a Yiddish term for an awkward and stupid person

   The poor schlep couldn't ask them out on a date.

Simplified etymology

Schlep entered English from Yiddish in the early 20th century, meaning “to haul or drag.”

From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan. Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).

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