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Word: Schlump
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1940s: apparently related to Yiddish shlumperdik ‘dowdy’ and German Schlumpe ‘slattern’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ʃlʊmp
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a slow, slovenly, or inept person
Short Definition:slow, slovenly, or inept person
Examples:- when he wakes up, the poor schlump finds himself in a gleaming modern Shangri-La
Variant Forms:
- shlump
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